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Among those whom
Horace had in view this at any rate could not have been the case. For among
them suicide was not regarded with horror, but with the highest praise and
admiration. Dum moritur " martial" numquid major just?
Sit Cato, dum vivit, sanè vel Cæsare major
Dum moritur, numquid major Othone fuit?
Martial VI xxxii

By an ill-considered expression Locke, a man worth a hundred
Maupertuises has given countenance to a most false, uncomfortable & pernicious
sentiment. He says that every action has its source in uneasiness. If this
be true uneasiness is the necessary accompaniment of action, with it & a man as often
as he acts & as long as he acts must be ill at ease. But what is
the feeling which Locke calls uneasiness. It is anything but a painful one.
It is the sense, the presentiment of a capacity for enjoying at some future
time a pleasure not then present. Pleasure may be springing from a
thousand sources, while anticipation might is looking to the opening of
many more. The present may be bright with enjoyment while the
door of a brighter future is unlocked – & to the pleasures of possession
may be associated the pleasures of hope.

If Johnson be were to be believed that every man is occupied
with the thoughts of dinner, till dinner comes. And according to Locke every man
who is not at dinner is uneasy for the want of it. Every moment not
employed in eating must be a moment of uneasiness. Yet this is not
true – it was not true even of Johnson himself. Beyond every thing else
Johnson loved his dinner, but thinking thus amorously of his dinner, what
prevented him from sitting with his Titsey on his knee, with a nosegay
under his nose another, – Titsey at the Harpsichord enchanting him with
a song, – & the work of a favourite author in his right hand.

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