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Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature to

Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it. – David Hume

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The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny. – David Hume

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Patriotism
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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. – David Hume

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Education
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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. – David Hume

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It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Living in Cambridge, with nature and everything, its so clean. – Syd Barrett

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Nature

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Nature, in her blind search for life, has filled every possible cranny of the earth with some sort of fantastic creature. – Joseph Wood Krutch

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Who loves well, chastises well. – Proverb

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