Beauty in things exits merely in the mind which contemplates them. - David Hume

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Grief and disappointment give rise to anger, anger to envy, envy to malice, and malice to grief again, till the whole circle be completed.

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Il est difficile de parler de soi longtemps sans vanité.

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The same good sense, that directs men in the ordinary occurrences of life, is not hearkened to in religious matters, which are supposed to be placed altogether above the cognizance of human reason.

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