Quotes from authors passed in 1752
Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour, or than love or hatred of anything else.
Joseph Butler
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.
Joseph Butler
Thus there is no doubt the eye was intended for us to see with.
Joseph Butler
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
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.
Joseph Butler
Authors that died in 1752

Leverett Saltonstall
Denis Thatcher
Muammar al-Gaddafi
Richard von Weizsaecker
Lillian Russell
M. Emmet Walsh
Ric Ocasek
Charlotte Bronte