Quote by David Hume
There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow o

There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it. – David Hume

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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. – David Hume

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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. – David Hume

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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. – David Hume

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You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters. – St. Bernard

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Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light every eye, looking on, finds its own. – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Natures part that she did not mean him to be a head worker. – Thomas Huxley

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Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. – Francis Bacon, Novum Organum, 1620

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