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To future evil, unpreventable ny thought let not thought
be applied - & if preventable & the means of prevention an
think of them no longer. Some men waste their time & destroy
their an by imagining possible evils,- evils which may never
visit them, - & if they do will not visit them a what the less severity for
all the anxiety which anticipated their arrival. They will only
have the pains of endurnace by the pains of expectation.
Conseq JusticeOf evil contingent on prudential or unprudential undoing
it is of course not intended to speak. To think of this: is
the self-regarding prudence are one teaching - but to harness
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 occupation. Dr
Johnson was an example of a man whose whole existence was
frequently made by the of insanity -
so vivid as nearly to mate the very calamity they depricated -
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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