A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience as can be imagined.

David Hume
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  1. Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.

  2. Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.

  3. 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.

  4. It is impossible for us to think of any thing, which we have not antecedently felt, either by our external or internal senses.

  5. No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.

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