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"The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery."
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"An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason."
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"We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause."
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"For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire's still going."
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"To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world."
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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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"So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of it, changes the condition of all its inhabitants."
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"Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect."
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"We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that."
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"The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery."
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"One of the things that has always motivated me to write is the desire to get it out and look at it in an objective way, so that it doesn't cause me any serious pain by staying inside."
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"Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food."
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"The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery."
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"For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another."
Being
"The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice."
Injustice
"Thus there is no doubt the eye was intended for us to see with."
Doubt
"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
"Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour, or than love or hatred of anything else."
Love
"This was the man, this Balaam, I say, was the man, who desired to die the death of the righteous, and that his last end might be like his; and this was the state of his mind when he pronounced these words."
Death
"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
"Man may act according to that principle or inclination which for the present happens to be strongest, and yet act in a way disproportionate to, and violate his real proper nature."
Nature
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