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Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness and likewise

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

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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. – Joseph Butler

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respect
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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

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Happiness
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If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears. – Anthony Storr

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Isn’t it cool when the days that are supposed to feel good, actually do? – Jim Carrey

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Happiness

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something. – Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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Happiness consists more in conveniences of pleasure that occur everyday than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom. – Benjamin Franklin

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We are so clothed in rationalization and dissemblance that we can recognize but dimly the deep primal impulses that motivate us. – James Ramsey Ullman

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War. Rape. Murder. Poverty. Equal rights for gays. Guess which one the Southern Baptist Convention is protesting? – The Value of Families

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