It is in books the chief of all perfections to be plain and brief.
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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.Joseph Butler
People might love themselves with the most entire and unbounded affection, and yet be extremely miserable.
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But to us, probability is the very guide of life.
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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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Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.
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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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