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"If you do not have Joy, there will be nothing for you to remember."

"The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness."
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"Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food."

"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."

"The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice."

"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."

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

"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?"

"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."

"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."
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