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Natural Quotes by Joseph Butler
- Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food
- Every one of our passions and affections hath its natural stint and bound, which may easily be exceeded; whereas our enjoyments can possibly be but…
- There is a much more exact correspondence between the natural and moral world than we are apt to take notice of.
- The only distinct meaning of the word "natural" is stated, fixed, or settled; since what is natural as much requires and presupposes an intelligent agent…
- Men are impatient, and for precipitating things; but the Author of Nature appears deliberate throughout His operations, accomplishing His natural ends by slow, successive steps.…
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