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

Labor was the first price, the original purchase – money that was paid for all things. – Adam Smith

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Money
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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

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Labor Day
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It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. – Adam Smith

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Business
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Other Quotes from
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May your search through Nature lead you to yourself. – Author Unknown

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Nature

I dont understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. Its a pretty gross interference with nature. – Peter Singer

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Nature

He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature… is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life. – Henri Frederic Amiel

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Nature

But Im a hot-blooded Italian by nature. Whatever the situation you present, Im going to make something out of it. – Maynard James Keenan

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Nature

Random Quotes

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life and the procedure , the process is its own reward. – Amelia Earhart

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Change

Without cancer, I never would have won a single Tour de France. Cancer taught me a plan for more purposeful living, and that in turn taught me how to train and to win more purposefully. It taught me that pain has a reason, and that sometimes the experience of losing things – Lance Armstrong

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Cancer

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us in joy we face the storm and defy it. – Amelia Barr

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inspirational

Lifestyle change and changes in diet work faster, better and more cheaply than any medication and are as effective or more effective than gastric bypass without any side effects or long-term complications. – Mark Hyman

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diet