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" I have written on all sorts of subjects... yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians. "

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" A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century. "

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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. "

" The chief benefit, which results from philosophy, arises in an indirect manner, and proceeds more from its secret, insensible influence, than from its immediate application. "

" The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one. "

" It is a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave. "

" 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. "

" Custom is the great guide to human life. "

" Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them. "

" A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker. "

" The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason. "

" Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived. "

" The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue. "

" Men often act knowingly against their interest. "

" Avarice, the spur of industry. "

" The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny. "

" He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance. "

" Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions. "

" No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish. "

" Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected. "

" To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive. "

" The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster. "

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

" Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge. "

" No advantages in this world are pure and unmixed. "

" It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. "