Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.
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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.Joseph Butler
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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People might love themselves with the most entire and unbounded affection, and yet be extremely miserable.
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Thus there is no doubt the eye was intended for us to see with.
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The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world.
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Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.
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