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Happiness does not consist in self-love.
Joseph Butler / Philosopher
Happiness
Happy
Doe
Self
Self Love
Consist
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The first thought is often the best.
Joseph Butler / Philosopher
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Every thing is what it is, and not another thing.
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But to us, probability is the very guide of life.
Joseph Butler / Philosopher
Life
Guides
Probability
Statistics
Guide
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Thus there is no doubt the eye was intended for us to see with.
Joseph Butler / Philosopher
Doubt
Eye
No Doubt
Intended
Thus
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The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery.
Joseph Butler / Philosopher
Causes
Compassion
Misery
Final
Prevent
Relieve
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Virtue, as such, naturally procures considerable advantages to the virtuous.
Joseph Butler / Philosopher
Advantage
Virtue
Virtuous
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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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Compassion
Nurse
Nursing
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Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.
Joseph Butler / Philosopher
Compassion
Demand
Hunger
Natural
Unhappy
Call
Relieve
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People might love themselves with the most entire and unbounded affection, and yet be extremely miserable.
Joseph Butler / Philosopher
Affection
Might
Miserable
People
Love People Affection
Extremely
Unbounded
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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.
Joseph Butler / Philosopher
Correspondence
Hair
Moral
World
Apt
World More Than
Exact
Notice
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The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.
Joseph Butler / Philosopher
Deceit
Deceiving
Employed
Injustice
Lying
Perjury
Tempting
Tongue
Vices
Purposes
Serve
Vice
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Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?
Joseph Butler / Philosopher
Action
Deceived
Desire
Fate
Should
Then
Actions
Consequences
Why
Them
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Virtue is not to be considered in the light of mere innocence, or abstaining from harm; but as the exertion of our faculties in doing good.
Joseph Butler / Philosopher
Action
Innocence
Light
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It is not at all incredible, that a book which has been so long in the possession of mankind should contain many truths as yet undiscovered.
Joseph Butler / Philosopher
Bible
Biblical
Book
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The satisfaction that accompanies good acts is itself not the motivation of the act; satisfaction is not the motive, but only the consequence.
Joseph Butler / Philosopher
Happiness
Motivation
Satisfaction
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That which is the foundation of all our hopes and of all our fears; all our hopes and fears which are of any consideration; I mean a Future Life.
Joseph Butler / Philosopher
Consideration
Foundation
Mean
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Consequently it will often happen there will be a desire of particular objects, in cases where they cannot be obtained without manifest injury to others.
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Cases
Manifest
Consequently
Obtained
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The love of liberty that is not a real principle of dutiful behavior to authority is as hypocritical as the religion that is not productive of a good life.
Joseph Butler / Philosopher
Good Life
Liberty
Real
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The Epistles in the New Testament have all of them a particular reference to the condition and usages of the Christian world at the time they were written.
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Christian
New Testament
Testament
Usage
World
Condition
Time World New
Christian World
Reference
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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.
Joseph Butler / Philosopher
Men
Desire
Every Man
Objects
Passion
Variety
Affections
Appetites
External
Hath
Likewise
Passions
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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 objects and ends, stated and shown.
Joseph Butler / Philosopher
Human Nature
Objects
Principles
Self
Self Love
Nature Human Human Nature
Several
Shown
Stated
Thus
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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.
Joseph Butler / Philosopher
Assistance
Compassion
Debt
Mind
Misery
Pain
Sorrow
Distressed
Owe
Puts
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Every man is to be considered in two capacities, the private and public; as designed to pursue his own interest, and likewise to contribute to the good of others.
Joseph Butler / Philosopher
Men
Capacity
Every Man
Pursue
Two
Considered
Capacities
Designed
Likewise
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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 / Philosopher
Enjoyment
Mere
Satisfaction
Scene
Sorrow
Unhappiness
World
Intended
Neither
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For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.
Joseph Butler / Philosopher
Body
Christ
Members
Office
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Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.
Joseph Butler / Philosopher
Affection
Enjoyment
Objects
Passion
Satisfaction
Affections
Appetites
Consists
Passions
Several
Suited
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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 love or hatred of anything else.
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Hatred
Neighbour
Self
Self Love
Anything Else
Distant
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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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Deserve
Fewer
People
Regard
Remember
Temper
Composed
Love Remember People
Likewise
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Man may act according to that principle or inclination which for the present happens to be strongest, and yet act in a way disproportionate to, and violate his real proper nature.
Joseph Butler / Philosopher
Men
Inclination
Principles
Real
According
Act
Disproportionate
Present
Principle
Proper
Violate
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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 in a determinate measure and degree.
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Degrees
May
Passion
Affections
Bound
Easily
Degree
Exceeded
Hath
Measure
Passions
Possibly
Whereas
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The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves.
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Mean
Principles
Sake
Self
Self Love
Affections
External
External Things
Principle
Seeks
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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 constituted by nature and supposed, self-love only puts us upon obtaining and securing it.
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Doe
Interest
Obtaining
Self
Self Love
Constitute
Puts
Supposed
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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 end might be like his; and this was the state of his mind when he pronounced these words.
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Righteous
Desired
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Both our senses and our passions are a supply to the imperfection of our nature; thus they show that we are such sort of creatures as to stand in need of those helps which higher orders of creatures do not.
Joseph Butler / Philosopher
Creatures
Higher
Imperfection
Order
Passion
Senses
Helps
Orders
Passions
Supply
Thus
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However, without considering this connection, there is no doubt but that more good than evil, more delight than sorrow, arises from compassion itself; there being so many things which balance the sorrow of it.
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Balance
Compassion
Considering
Delight
Doubt
No Doubt
Sorrow
Arises
Connection
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God Almighty is, to be sure, unmoved by passion or appetite, unchanged by affection; but then it is to be added that He neither sees nor hears nor perceives things by any senses like ours; but in a manner infinitely more perfect.
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Affection
Almighty
Appetite
Passion
Perfect
Senses
Added
God Almighty
Hears
Infinitely
Manner
Neither
Ours
Sees
Unchanged
Unmoved
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The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world.
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Happiness
Men
Adapted
Capacity
World
Considered
Attain
Greatest Happiness
Leads
Plainly
Present World
Sum
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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 interested or disinterested, because the objects of them all are equally self or somewhat else.
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Affection
Appetite
Disinterested
Heart
Love Is
Self
Self Love
Term
Somewhat
Equally
Expressed
Object
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The private interest of the individual would not be sufficiently provided for by reasonable and cool self-love alone; therefore the appetites and passions are placed within as a guard and further security, without which it would not be taken due care of.
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Individual
Passion
Reasonable
Security
Self
Self Love
Taken
Appetites
Due
Further
Guard
Passions
Placed
Private
Provided
Sufficiently
Therefore
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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 to render it so, i.e. to effect it continually or at stated times, as what is supernatural or miraculous does to effect it for once.
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Science
Doe
Intelligent
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In all common ordinary cases, we see intuitively at first view what is out duty, what is the honest part. This is the ground of the observation, that the first thought is often the best. In these cases, doubt and deliberation is itself dishonesty; as it was in Balaam upon the second message.
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Doubt
Firsts
Views
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People habituate themselves to let things pass through their minds, as one may speak, rather than to think of them. Thus by use they become satisfied merely with seeing what is said, without going any further. Review and attention, and even forming a judgment, becomes fatigue; and to lay anything before them that requires it, is putting them quite out of their way.
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People
Philosophical
Thinking
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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. And there is a plan of things beforehand laid out, which, from the nature of it, requires various systems of means, as well as length of time, in order to the carrying on its several parts into execution.
Joseph Butler / Philosopher
Nature
Science
Mean
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