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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.
Joseph Butler
Joseph Butler
Joseph Butler
Born: May 18, 1692
Died: Jun 16, 1752

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Compassion, Mind, Pain, Our, Ourselves, Distressed, Misery, Puts, Sorrow, Well, Debt, Owe, Us, Right, Assistance

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George Whitefield, John Wesley, Matthew Henry, Sydney Smith, Thomas Becket, Thomas Fuller, William Inge, William Pollard
Joseph Butler: Fifteen Sermons and other writings on ethics (British Moral Philosophers)
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