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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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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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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Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge. – David Hume

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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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Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature. – Hosea Ballou

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Sunshine has no budget, the sea no red tape. – Terri Guillemets

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The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall. – Helen Garner

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