The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.
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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.Joseph Butler
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.
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Happiness consists in the gratification of certain affections, appetites, passions, with objects which are by nature adapted to them.
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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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That which is the foundation of all our hopes and of all our fears all our hopes and fears which are of any consideration I mean a Future Life.
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