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“Every thing useful and beneficial to man, seems to be connected with obedience to the laws of his nature, the inclinations, the duties, and the happiness of individuals, resolve themselves into customs and habits, favorable, in the highest degree, to society. In no case is this more apparent, than in the customs of nations respecting marriage.”

Men Seems Law Individual Nations Cases Duty Habit Degrees Highest Connected Obedience Resolve Customs Inclination Beneficial

Book:The Natural and Civil History of Vermont

Source: The Natural and Civil History of Vermont

“Society is the true sphere of human virtue. In social, active life, difficulties will perpetually be met with; restraints of many kinds will be necessary; and studying to behave right in respect of these is a discipline of the human heart, useful to others, and improving to itself. Suffering is no duty, but where it is necessary to avoid guilt, or to do good; nor pleasure a crime, but where it strengthens the influence of bad inclinations, or lessens the generous activity of virtue.”

Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes ...

“The brutal soldiers satisfied their sensual appetites without consulting either the inclination or the duties of their female captives; and a nice question of casuistry was seriously agitated, Whether those tender victims, who had inflexibly refused their consent to the violation which they sustained, had lost, by their misfortune, the glorious crown of virginity. There were other losses indeed of a more substantial kind and more general concern.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“Duty is whatever opposes inclination.”

Duty Inclination

Author:Mason Cooley

“Notice that tearing oneself out of the insensible state is the opposite of remaining in it; the man who is beneficent from duty nevertheless acts with feelings, if not with empirical inclinations.”

Ifs Men States Feelings He Man Duty Opposites Oneself Nevertheless Inclination Insensible

Author:Allen W. Wood

“If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.”

Ifs Should Moments Past Law Lying Duty Should Have Inclination

Book:The Mill on the Floss

Source: The Mill on the Floss