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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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  Office, Body, Christ

  Joseph Butler (2012). “Human Nature and other Sermons”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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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.

  Joseph Butler

  Christian, World, Usage

  Joseph Butler, Stephen L. Darwall (1983). “Five Sermons, Preached at the Rolls Chapel and A Dissertation Upon the Nature of Virtue”, p.25, Hackett Publishing

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• 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.

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  Real, Men, Principles

  Joseph Butler (1856). “The analogy of religion, natural and revealed, to the constitution and course of nature: to which are added, two brief dissertations : On personal identity, and On the nature of virtue; and fifteen sermons”, p.404

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• The only distinct meaning of the word "natural" is stated, fixed, or settled; since what is natural as much requires and presupposes an intelligent agent to render it so, i.e. to effect it continually or at stated times, as what is supernatural or miraculous does to effect it for once.

  Joseph Butler

  Science, Intelligent, Doe

  Joseph Butler (1860). “The Analogy of Religion, to the Constitution and Course of Nature: To which are Added Two Brief Dissertations : I. On Personal Identity : II. On the Nature of Virtue”, p.94

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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.

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  Passion, Satisfaction, Affection

  Joseph Butler, Stephen L. Darwall (1983). “Five Sermons, Preached at the Rolls Chapel and A Dissertation Upon the Nature of Virtue”, p.48, Hackett Publishing

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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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  Taken, Passion, Self

  Joseph Butler (1856). “The analogy of religion, natural and revealed, to the constitution and course of nature: to which are added, two brief dissertations : On personal identity, and On the nature of virtue; and fifteen sermons”, p.432

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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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  People, Remember, Temper

  Joseph Butler (2012). “Human Nature and other Sermons”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense, and every particular affection of the heart, are equally interested or disinterested, because the objects of them all are equally self or somewhat else.

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  Heart, Love Is, Self

  Joseph Butler (1856). “The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature: To which are Added, Two Brief Dissertations: on Personal Identity, and on the Nature of Virtue; and Fifteen Sermons”, p.490

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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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  Self, Doe, Interest

  Joseph Butler, Stephen L. Darwall (1983). “Five Sermons, Preached at the Rolls Chapel and A Dissertation Upon the Nature of Virtue”, p.48, Hackett Publishing

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• In all common ordinary cases, we see intuitively at first view what is out duty, what is the honest part. This is the ground of the observation, that the first thought is often the best. In these cases, doubt and deliberation is itself dishonesty; as it was in Balaam upon the second message.

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  Views, Doubt, Firsts

  Joseph Butler (1839). “The Whole Works of Joseph Butler ...”

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

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  People, Might, Affection

  Joseph Butler (2012). “Human Nature and other Sermons”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Self, Principles, Human Nature

  Joseph Butler (2012). “Human Nature and other Sermons”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Passion, Degrees, May

  Joseph Butler, Stephen L. Darwall (1983). “Five Sermons, Preached at the Rolls Chapel and A Dissertation Upon the Nature of Virtue”, p.49, Hackett Publishing

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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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  Lying, Vices, Deceit

  Joseph Butler (2012). “Human Nature and other Sermons”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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