David Hume: A Letter to a Physician
A Coldness and Desertion of the Spirit
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"I was continually fortifying myself with reflections against death, and poverty, and shame, and pain, and all the other calamities of life. These no doubt are exceeding useful, when joined with an active life...in solitude they serve to little other purpose, than to waste the spirits, the force of the mind meeting with no resistance, but wasting itself in the air, like our arm when it misses its aim"
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"I found, that as there are two things very bad for this distemper, study and idleness, so there are two things very good, business and diversion"
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