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Quote by David Hume
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches one to fear and sorrow

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches one to fear and sorrow real poverty. – David Hume

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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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Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity. – David Hume

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

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Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten. – Mary Catherine Bateson

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It is because I believe that it is in the power of such nations to lead the world back into the paths of peace that I propose to devote myself to explaining what, in my opinion, can and should be done to banish the fear of war that hangs so heavily over the world. – Arthur Henderson

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart. – Horace Mann

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He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin. – John Ruskin

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My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and thats still what I do: teach. – Mike Krzyzewski

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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you. – Leo Tolstoy

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