Nothing is pure and entire of a piece. All advantages are attended with disadvantages. A universal compensation prevails in all conditions of being and existence.
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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Henry David Thoreau
Even if the heavy cloud fails to bring heavy rainfall, it cools the atmosphere
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Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
And as a few strokes on the nose will make a puppy head shy, so a few rebuffs will make a boy shy all over. But whereas a puppy will cringe away or roll on its back, groveling, a little boy may cover his shyness...
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John Steinbeck
If the poor man cannot always get meat the rich man cannot always digest it.
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Henry Giles
Tis always morning somewhere in the world.
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Richard Hengest Horne
More Quotes By David Hume
Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.
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.
It is impossible for us to think of any thing, which we have not antecedently felt, either by our external or internal senses.
No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.
