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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 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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"People might love themselves with the most entire and unbounded affection, and yet be extremely miserable."

"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."
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