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David Hume

David Hume (; 25 August 1776) was a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist known especially for his philosophical empiricism and skepticism.

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

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David Hume

Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.

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David Hume

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.

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David Hume

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.

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Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.

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There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves.

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Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.

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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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Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.

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David Hume

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.

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David Hume

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