- Appetites
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Injustice
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- Nov 07, 2020
The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a much more exact correspondence between the natural and moral world than we are apt to take notice of.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Human Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Desire
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- Nov 07, 2020
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?
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
But to us, probability is the very guide of life.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.
- Desire
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Desire
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Measure
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Does
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- Nov 07, 2020
Happiness does not consist in self-love.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.
- Compassion
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
People might love themselves with the most entire and unbounded affection, and yet be extremely miserable.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Constitute
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Christian World
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- Nov 07, 2020