"Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering……" — David Hume
"Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches."
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216 Quotes by David Hume
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All the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature; and...however wide any of them may seem to…
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Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most…
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Your corn is ripe today; mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both, that I should labour with…
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Your corn is ripe today, mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both that I should labor with…
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Look round this universe. What an immense profusion of beings, animated and organized, sensible and active! You admire this prodigious…
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I do not have enough faith to believe there is no god.
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God is an ever-present spirit guiding all that happens to a wise and holy end.
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Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude.
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The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, have either been detected by…
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All this creative power of the mind amounts to no more than the faculty of compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing…
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To consider the matter aright, reason is nothing but a wonderful and unintelligible instinct in our souls, which carries us…
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Tis evident that all reasonings concerning matter of fact are founded on the relation of cause and effect, and that…
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More Abound Quotes
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A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most…
— Teresa of Avila
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Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
— Mel Brooks
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Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.
— Samuel Butler
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No one was ever saved because his sins were small; no one was ever rejected on account of the greatness…
— Archibald Alexander
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Wherever valor true is found, true modesty will there abound.
— W. S. Gilbert
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Where guilty is, rage and courage doth abound.
— Ben Jonson
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Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known…
— Algernon Sidney
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Millions of our race are now supported by lands situated where deep seas once prevailed in earlier ages. In many…
— Charles Lyell
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Stereotypes abound when there is distance. They are an invention, a pretense that one knows when the steps that would…
— Bell Hooks
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The main task for us all is that of a new evangelization aimed at helping younger generations to rediscover the…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Rather than getting more spoilt with age, as difficulties pile up, epiphanies of gratitude abound.
— Alain de Botton
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