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"The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery."
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"Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement."
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"An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason."
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"A cause that only serves me is much like a door on the edge of a cliff, it doesn't open to anywhere good."
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"I wrapped that Monday and started on my third episode for Miss Match on Thursday of that same week and we just wrapped yesterday cause it was split over the holiday."
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"He who feels compelled to consider the consequences of these facts cannot but realize that the specific sensibility of nerves for certain impressions is not enough, since all nerves are sensitive to the same cause but react to the same cause in different ways."
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"The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities."
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"Before you beat a child, be sure yourself are not the cause of the offense."
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"I am pleased to be considered a 'denier' in this cause if this puts me in the class with those who defied prevailing 'scientific consensus' that the earth was flat and that the earth was the not the center of the universe."
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"At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid."
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"I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose."
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Explore more quotes by Joseph Butler
"However, without considering this connection, there is no doubt but that more good than evil, more delight than sorrow, arises from compassion itself; there being so many things which balance the sorrow of it."
Balance
"Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?"
Action
"God Almighty is, to be sure, unmoved by passion or appetite, unchanged by affection; but then it is to be added that He neither sees nor hears nor perceives things by any senses like ours; but in a manner infinitely more perfect."
God
"Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed."
Compassion
"Consequently it will often happen there will be a desire of particular objects, in cases where they cannot be obtained without manifest injury to others."
Desire
"People might love themselves with the most entire and unbounded affection, and yet be extremely miserable."
Love
"Remember likewise there are persons who love fewer words, an inoffensive sort of people, and who deserve some regard, though of too still and composed tempers for you."
Love
"The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice."
Injustice
"As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment, so neither was it intended to be a mere scene of unhappiness and sorrow."
Enjoyment
"The Epistles in the New Testament have all of them a particular reference to the condition and usages of the Christian world at the time they were written."
Time
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