Quote by Adam Smith
To feel much for others and little for ourselves to restrain our s

To feel much for others and little for ourselves to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature. – Adam Smith

Other quotes by Adam Smith

Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God. – Adam Smith

Category:
Humor
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Labor was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labor, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased. – Adam Smith

Category:
Labor Day
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Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence. – Adam Smith

Category:
Nature
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Other Quotes from
Nature
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Dont pray when it rains if you dont pray when the sun shines. – Satchel Paige

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Nature

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Nature

Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature. – Baruch Spinoza

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Nature

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. – Rachel Carson

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Nature

Random Quotes

The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts. – William Ellery Channing

Category:
Enemy, Enemies

Do dirt, get dirt. So I treat people with the same respect that I want. – DMX

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respect

As important as shared memories is the silent agreement that certain things never happened. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Category:
Relationships

I can play punk rock, and I love playing punk rock, but I was into every other style of music before I played punk rock. – Travis Barker

Category:
Music