"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."

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Source : Joseph Butler, Samuel Hallifax (1828). “The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Butler: To which is Prefixed, an Account of the Character and Writings of the Author”

Joseph Butler

#Pain Quotes #Compassion Quotes #Sorrow Quotes

“You have to just dive over the edge. You haven't got time to mess about.”
“To this very day, I do not know what he (Hitler) thought or knew or really wanted. I only knew my own thoughts and suspicions.”
“I'm lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I'll make the effort.”
“I keep myself content by doing lots of different stuff and make sure that my next role is completely different to the last. I just enjoy the versatility of it, the challenge of doing lots of different things. It keeps the job interesting.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Regrets about the journey, maybe, but not the destination.”
“God promises to meet our needs, not our greeds.”
“Hitch was interested in what I had to offer, like one of my background ideas for Norman's upbringing.”
“I care not where I go, or how I live, or what I endure so that I may save souls. When I sleep I dream of them; when I awake they are first in my thoughts.”

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