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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume I.

CHAPTER XXI
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But, these set apart the most important and urgent uneasiness we at that time feel, is that which ordinarily determines the will, successively, in that train of voluntary actions which makes up our lives.

The greatest present uneasiness is the spur to action, that is constantly most felt, and for the most part determines the will in its choice of the next action.

For this we must carry along with us, that the proper and only object of the will is some action of ours, and nothing else.

For we producing nothing by our willing it, but some action in our power, it is there the will terminates, and reaches no further.
42.

All desire Happiness.
If it be further asked,--What it is moves desire?
I answer,--happiness, and that alone.


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