"Remember likewise there are persons who love fewer……" — Joseph Butler
"Remember likewise there are persons who love fewer words, an inoffensive sort of people, and who deserve some regard, though of too still and composed tempers for you."
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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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Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and…
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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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More Composed Quotes
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one of 456 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
— Aristotle
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The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is…
— Walter Benjamin
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The mental body, like the astral, varies much in different people; it is composed of coarser or of finer matter,…
— Annie Besant
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Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
— Samuel Butler
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Speaking of Twitter, I don't even know if I composed a blog entry in 2009, as I was too busy…
— Diablo Cody
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Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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Life processes take place in an aqueous medium. All organisms are composed mostly of water, whether they dwell in the…
— Robert E. Lee
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If you have a glass full of liquid you can discourse forever on its qualities, discuss whether it is cold,…
— Taisen Deshimaru
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The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress.
— Confucius
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Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for…
— Aristotle
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Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite…
— Nicolas Chamfort
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