A propensity to hope and joy is real riches one to fear and sorrow real poverty.
David Hume
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More quotes by David Hume
- This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.
- Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.
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- Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.
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