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Delicacy Quote by David Hume

“Delicacy of taste has the same effect as delicacy of passion; it enlarges the sphere both of our happiness and our misery.” quote by David Hume — Download Open image

“Delicacy of taste has the same effect as delicacy of passion; it enlarges the sphere both of our happiness and our misery.”

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“It is impossible for us to think of any thing, which we have not antecedently felt, either by our external or internal senses.”

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All morality depends upon our sentiments; and when any action or quality of the mind pleases us after a certain manner we say it…

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And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For if truth be at all within the reach of human capacity, it is certain it must lie very deep and abstruse: and to hope we shall arrive at it without pains, while the greatest geniuses have failed with…

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That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will…

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We may conclude, therefore, that, in order to establish laws for the regulation of property, we must be acquainted with the nature and situation…

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The observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours…

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The religious hypothesis, therefore, must be considered only as a particular method of accounting for the visible phenomena of the universe: but no just…

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Manufacturers...gradually shift their places, leaving those countries and provinces which they have already enriched, and flying to others, whether they are allured by the…

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“The most perfect happiness, surely, must arise from the contemplation of the most perfect object.”

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I decided to lock myself in. A forced segregation. Sabbatical. A retreat into myself. My selves. Play hide and go seek in the looking-glass. The mirror angled at the foot of my bed. Twisted reflections bouncing off into infinity. Obsessed with my image, the myriad of distored figurines who danced in front of me in rapid succession, every feature exaggerated,…

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In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound,…

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If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.

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To see the butcher slap the steak before he laid it on the block, and give his knife a sharpening, was to forget breakfast…

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An oyster, that marvel of delicacy, that concentration of sapid excellence, that mouthful bwefore all other mouthfuls, who first had faith to believe it,…

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Too great cleverness is but deceptive delicacy, true delicacy is the most substantial cleverness.

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A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.

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If you could choose to master a single ingredient, no choice would teach you more about cooking than the egg. It is an end in itself; it's a multipurpose ingredient; it's an all-purpose garnish; it's an invaluable tool. The egg teaches your hands finesse and delicacy. It helps your arms develop strength and stamina. It instructs in the way proteins…

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My love affair with nature is so deep that I am not satisfied with being a mere onlooker, or nature tourist. I crave a…

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HOG, n. A bird remarkable for the catholicity of its appetite and serving to illustrate that of ours. Among the Mahometans and Jews, the hog is not in favor as an article of diet, but is respected for the delicacy and the melody of its voice. It is chiefly as a songster that the fowl is esteemed; the cage of…

There is a certain delicacy which in yielding conquers; and with a pitiful look makes one find cause to crave help one's self.

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