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People might love themselves with the most entire and unbounded affection, and yet be extremely miserable.

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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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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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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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The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery.

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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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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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The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.

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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.

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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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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Clergyman

Born: May 18th, 1692

Died: June 16th, 1752

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