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If then by way of resuming at the recollection of past scenes of pleasure give
more gratification from the memory of the pleasure than pain
from the thought knowledge that the pleasure is past away, it is wise &
prudent to recall them to the thoughts. If on scenes that
were originally painful the delight of escape – the relief contrast which
contrast gives to present relief affords to past suffering, leave a
balance of satisfaction greater than would be left by absolute
forgetfulness it is a the lesson of utility is to summon them forth
from the recesses of remembrance. The only case No rule can be
given which shall apply to a particular case, as the
constitution of different minds is so variable. To some for
example the memory of the dead whom they have loved &
honored comes always in the shape of pain – nay often of
agony. They can think of nothing but of the privation of
happiness, sustained by their removal. To others there
is no source of pleasurable emotion more sweet – more
pure, – more permanent – than that which flows from the
recollection of beings who no longer take a personal part
in the business of life. These dwell less upon the thought
of what they lost by their absence than upon the memory
of what they enjoyed in their presence. Happily the tendency
of reflection is & the progress of time are generally in alliance with the teachings of
prudence. The grief that mourns the dead – is subdued by
a sense of its fruitlessness – the mind is dragged forth gradually
from the vanities of useless sorrow – and regret after exhausting
itself in idle lamentation yields to those more rational influences
which utility recommended long before.

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