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For, besides, that many person...

For, besides, that many persons find too sensible an interest in perpetually recalling such topics; besides this, I say, the motive of blind despair can never reasonably have place in the sciences; since, however unsuccessful former attempts may have proved, there is still room to hope, that the industry, good fortune, or improved sagacity of succeeding generations may reach discoveries unknown to former ages.

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The stability of modern govern...

The stability of modern governments above the ancient, and the accuracy of modern philosophy, have improved, and probably will still improve, by similar gradations.

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The forming of general maxims ...

The forming of general maxims from particular observation is a very nice operation; and nothing is more usual, from haste or a narrowness of mind, which sees not on all sides, than to commit mistakes in this particular.

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The first ideas of religion ar...

The first ideas of religion arose, not from contemplation of the works of nature, but from a concern with regard to the events of life.

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Grief and disappointment give ...

Grief and disappointment give rise to anger, anger to envy, envy to malice, and malice to grief again, till the whole circle be completed.

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The gazing populace receive gr...

The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.

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In public affairs men are ofte...

In public affairs men are often better pleased that the truth, though known to everybody, should be wrapped up under a decent cover than if it were exposed in open daylight to the eyes of all the world.

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Among well bred people a mutua...

Among well bred people a mutual deference is affected, contempt for others is disguised; authority concealed; attention given to each in his turn; and an easy stream of conversation maintained without vehemence, without interruption, without eagerness for victory, and without any airs of superiority.

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Never literary attempt was mor...

Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press.

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It is more rational to suspect...

It is more rational to suspect knavery and folly than to discount, at a stroke, everything that past experience has taught me about the way things actually work

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I may venture to affirm the re...

I may venture to affirm the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement.

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But I would still reply, that ...

But I would still reply, that the knavery and folly of men are such common phenomena, that I should rather believe the most extraordinary events to arise from their concurrence, than admit of so signal a violation of the laws of nature

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Nothing endears so much a frie...

Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.

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The more instances we examine,...

The more instances we examine, and the more care we employ, the more assurance shall we acquire, that the enumeration, which we form from the whole, is complete and entire.

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When I shall be dead, the prin...

When I shall be dead, the principles of which I am composed will still perform their part in the universe, and will be equally useful in the grand fabric, as when they composed this individual creature. The difference to the whole will be no greater betwixt my being in a chamber and in the open air. The one change is of more importance to me than the other; but not more so to the universe.

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That the sun shines tomorrow i...

That the sun shines tomorrow is a judgement that is as true as the contrary judgement.

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I never asserted such an absur...

I never asserted such an absurd thing as that things arise without a cause.

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I cannot but bless the memory ...

I cannot but bless the memory of Julius Caesar, for the great esteem he expressed for fat men and his aversion to lean ones.

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The fact that different cultur...

The fact that different cultures have different practices no more refutes [moral] objectivism than the fact that water flows in different directions in different places refutes the law of gravity

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The Crusades - the most signal...

The Crusades - the most signal and most durable monument of human folly that has yet appeared in any age or nation.

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