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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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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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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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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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Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine. – George Santayana

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One thing, however, is sure, – that in all cases the effort should be to impose all the cost of repairing the wrong upon the doer of the wrong. This alone is real justice, and of course such justice is necessarily free. – Benjamin Tucker

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If its true that our species is alone in the universe, then Id have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little. – George Carlin

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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand? – Charles Lindbergh

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