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from Diſappointments.
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It is a well-known remark, that our very wiſhes give us not our wiſh. I have often thought it might be ſet down as a maxim, that the greateſt diſappointment we can meet with is the gratification of our fondeſt wiſhes. But truth is ſometimes not pleaſant; we turn from it, and doat on an illuſion; and if we were not in a probationary ſtate, we ſhould do well to thicken the cloud, rather than diſpel it.
There are ſome who delight in obſerving moral beauty, and their ſouls ſicken when forced to view crimes and follies which could never hurt them. How numerous are the ſorrows which
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