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Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding.
— David Hume
Tags: room, reason, understanding, reflection

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Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.
— David Hume Of the Standard of Taste and Other Essays
Tags: religious-meaning, religion, perception, god, evil, beholder, beauty
Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.
— David Hume
Tags: which, than, more, nothing
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.
— David Hume
Tags: written, except, indeed, enemies
A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
— David Hume
Tags: belief, wise-man, man, wise
The most unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so.
— David Hume
Tags: positive, events
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