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" Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them. "

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" 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. "

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

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

" 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 corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst. "

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" Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few. "

" Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals. "

" That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise. "

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" Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it. "

" To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian. "

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

" Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous. "

" The law always limits every power it gives. "

" 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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" It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger. "

" 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. "

" Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity. "