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Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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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. ↗

— Joseph Butler

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I did a lot of theater in the South side of Chicago. ↗

— Kel Mitchell

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

— Joseph Butler

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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

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The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves. ↗

— Joseph Butler

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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. ↗

— Joseph Butler

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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? ↗

— Joseph Butler

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So from an angry lawman's mouth, the Outlaw Motorcyclists were born. ↗

— Chuck Zito

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