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To future evils, unpreventable by thought let not thought
be applied - & if preventable & the means of prevention are settled
think of them no longer. Some men waste their time & destroy
their peace by imagining possible evils,- evils which may never
visit them, - & if they do will not visit them a what the less severely for
all the anxiety which anticipated their arrival. They will only
have willed the pains of endurance by the pains of expectation.
Conseq Justice Of evil contingent on prudential or unprudential conduct
it is of course not intended to speak. To think of this: is
the self-regarding prudence are one teaching - but to harrass
the mind by imagining disease - ing the tortures of the
st,- the visitations of blindness - or the loss of any of the
senses is most unfruitful ment not to say baleful occupation. Dr
Johnson was an example of a man whose whole existence was
frequently made wretched by the pain of insanity - pain
so vivid as nearly to make the very calamity they deprecated -
pain which ha frequently interspersed his usefulness - always
(when present) with his felicity

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	393	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	linking material	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f71
Penner	sir john bowring	Watermarks	lacroix f
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Notes public		ID Number	5609
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