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The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and…
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It is not at all incredible, that a book which has been so long in the possession of mankind should contain many…
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As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment, so neither was it intended…
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Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we…
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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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The love of liberty that is not a real principle of dutiful behavior to authority is as hypocritical as the religion that…
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People habituate themselves to let things pass through their minds, as one may speak, rather than to think of them. Thus by…
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Happiness does not consist in self-love.
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The satisfaction that accompanies good acts is itself not the motivation of the act; satisfaction is not the motive, but only the…
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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…
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Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour,…
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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…
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What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No,…
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Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.
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Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular…
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Many things, for aught I know, may exist, whereof neither I nor any other man hath or can have any idea or…
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Every man hath greater assurance that God is good and just than he can have of any subtle speculations about predestination and…
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For it has been said, all that a man hath will he give for his life; and while all contribute of their…
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Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and…
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Beauty brings its own fancy price, for all that a man hath will he give for his love.
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Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed, which declares his dignity, And the regard of Heav'n on all his…
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