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Among thoughts of pain which struggle to force themselves
into the mind endeavor especially to exclude the recollection or the
anticipation of irremediable evil. Evil to which you are quite sure that
it is impossible for you apply – or to assist others in applying
any, – the least remedy, – think of as little as possible, – for the more
you think of it – the more you increase it. To this case belong
all the evils that are passed. Passed are they & nothing can make
that not to have been that has been – no anxiety about an event
which has happened will make it not to have happened. If it be
an evil that you might have prevented by acting differently then
prudence requires that your thoughts should dwell upon it long enough to
prevent a repetition recurrence of the conduct that induced it. If you have
suffered a loss of money, – a power, – or any object of desire or of
gratification – by & your own imprudence or improvidence was
the cause – recall it to your mind sufficiently prevent a
repetition of your miscalculation. But if no error of yours
led to the evil – revert not to it – forget it as soon as you
can – you but only waste your painful emotions, – & in wasting magnify
them. Always remember that pains & pleasures are after all,
the stock of human good & evil – the seed of future well-being – they should
wherever their creation depends upon volition be revi thrown on no
known ground uncongenial to the production of good. A pain pregnant with future pleasure is may be an
instrument scarcely as valuable as a pleasure producing pleasure –
if a primary pain had be the parent of a greater and balance of pleasure
than the a primary pleasure could give birth to – that primary pain
is of more value in the account of happiness than that primary
pleasure. The true discipline – the genuine arithmetic of
morality is here.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	391	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	linking material	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f68
Penner	sir john bowring	Watermarks	i i smith & son 1831
Marginals		Paper Producer	maria edgeworth
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1831
Notes public		ID Number	5607
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