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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 owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed.” quote by Joseph Butler — Download Open image

“Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed.”

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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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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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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The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense, and every particular affection of the heart, are equally…

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