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Quotes by David Hume
- A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.
- A propensity to hope and joy is real riches one to fear and sorrow real poverty.
- A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
- Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.
- Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity.
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