"Pain and sorrow and misery have a right……" — Joseph Butler
"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."
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42 Quotes by Joseph Butler
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The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in…
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It is not at all incredible, that a book which has been so long in the possession of mankind should…
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As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment, so neither was…
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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…
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People habituate themselves to let things pass through their minds, as one may speak, rather than to think of them.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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More Assistance Quotes
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To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history,…
— Charles Babbage
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The School Energy Crisis Relief Act authorizes the Secretary of Energy to issue energy assistance grants to help the poorest…
— Joe Baca
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I support immediate financial assistance to the newly elected Palestinian president. Now, I don't know what those numbers will be,…
— Joe Biden
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The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.
— Taylor Caldwell
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Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will…
— John Calvin
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Although I am a young leader, I actually came to it strangely quite late. I have a different perspective, partly…
— Nick Clegg
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Without the assistance of that Divine Being...I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail.
— Abraham Lincoln
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To practice virtue is to selflessly offer assistance to others, giving without limitation one's time, abilities, and possessions in service,…
— Laozi
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Our immigration policy is focussed in four areas: First, strengthening border control; second, protecting American jobs by enforcing laws against…
— William J. Clinton
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...what about the millions of poor in this country who desperately need assistance and services to help bring them out…
— Ed Koch
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This is a win for the 4-year-olds who require pre-K, the low-wealth counties that need assistance with school construction and…
— Dominique Easley
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Gentlemen, I have lived a long time and am convinced that God governs in the affairs of men. If a…
— Benjamin Franklin
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