Enjoyment Quote by Joseph Butler

“As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment, so neither was it intended to be a mere scene of unhappiness and sorrow.” quote by Joseph Butler — Download Open image

“As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment, so neither was it intended to be a mere scene of unhappiness and sorrow.”

Joseph Butler

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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 external objects.

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Virtue, as such, naturally procures considerable advantages to the virtuous.

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This was the man, this Balaam, I say, was the man, who desired to die the death of the righteous, and that his last…

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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, or than…

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