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Quote by Joseph Butler
The private interest of the individual would not be sufficiently p

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. – Joseph Butler

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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

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Food
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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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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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Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone. – A. R. Ammons

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There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to. – Michel de Montaigne

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The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone. – Laura Bush

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Iran has long sponsored terrorists who carry out homicide bombings in Israeli cities. However, it is a mistake to believe the danger Iran poses is directed at Israel alone. – John Doolittle

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No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit. – Theodor Adorno

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Nothing is easy to the unwilling. – Thomas Fuller

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We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it. – John Steinbeck, America and Americans

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The stories of childhood leave an indelible impression, and their author always has a niche in the temple of memory from which the image is never cast out to be thrown on the rubbish heap of things that are outgrown and outlived. – Howard Pyle

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