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Joseph Butler

"Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects."

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"Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects."

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"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."
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"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."
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"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?"
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"Self-love then does not constitute THIS or THAT to be our interest or good; but, our interest or good being constituted by nature and supposed, self-love only puts us upon obtaining and securing it."
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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."
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"People might love themselves with the most entire and unbounded affection, and yet be extremely miserable."
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"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."
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"The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense, and every particular affection of the heart, are equally interested or disinterested, because the objects of them all are equally self or somewhat else."
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"Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their objects and ends, stated and shown."
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"There is a much more exact correspondence between the natural and moral world than we are apt to take notice of."
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