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Joseph Butler

English

May 18, 1692

Clergyman

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

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Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects.

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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.

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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.

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