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In proportion to the intensity quantity of painful which a given thought brings with it will
in general be the difficulty of removing it from the mind. As At
intensity is a fact all events, the motive for its removal will be
proportioned to its intensity & duration. And of such painful thoughts
those caused by the loss of friends are often the most painful. In
the earlier stages of grief the power of introducing thoughts of a
wholly different character can scarcely be exercised, – & it then
becomes the object of wisdom to modify the painful thought
by associations naturally associated with & easily linked to it – of which the presence
of death itself furnishes an abundance, and almost every
individual case of death some peculiar and personal elements.
For there is no sorrow which has not in some way or
other been linked with pleasure, – & the very existence of sorrow
implies a contrast with the absence of sorrow. than Grief &
grievance derive many of their pains from the privation of some good once
possessed or hoped for – & cannot enter the mind but in
adjacency to pleasures enjoyed or anticipated – the remembrance
of which enjoyment or anticipation is not necessarily & on all
occasions isoverwhelmed with the recollection thought idea of its loss. So
the memory of the dead may be brightened with so many
beautiful & pleasure giving reflections as to make even their death itself
a source of happiness and there is may be no less of true philosophy
than of affectionate tenderness in the thought reflection that there may
be a greater bliss in thinking of those we have loved among the
dead than in all the society of enjoyments gathered among the living.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	405	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	linking material	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f83
Penner	sir john bowring	Watermarks	john dickinson & c<…> 1813
Marginals		Paper Producer	a. levy
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1813
Notes public		ID Number	5621
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