The private interest of the individual would not be sufficiently provided for by reasonable and cool self-love alone; therefore the appetites and passions are placed within as a guard and further security, without which it would not be taken due care 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.Joseph Butler
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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Every man is to be considered in two capacities, the private and public; as designed to pursue his own interest, and likewise to contribute to the good of others.
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However, without considering this connection, there is no doubt but that more good than evil, more delight than sorrow, arises from compassion itself; there being so many things which balance the sorrow of it.
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It is in books the chief of all perfections to be plain and brief.
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The love of our neighbour is the same with charity, benevolence, or goodwill it is an affection to the good and happiness of our fellow-creatures.
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