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" What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'. "

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" And what is the greatest number? Number one. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue. "

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

" Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man. "

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

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

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

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

" It's when we start working together that the real healing takes place... it's when we start spilling our sweat, and not our blood. "

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" The law always limits every power it gives. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Truth springs from argument amongst friends. "

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

" 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. "

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

" There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves. "

" A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty. "

" 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. "

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