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Futurity is the proper abode of hope and fear, with all their train and progeny of subordinate apprehensions and desires.
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The disturbers of our happiness, in this world, are our desires, our griefs, and our fears; and to all these, the consideration of mortality is a certain and adequate remedy.
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Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we ought not to hope too securely, we ought not to fear with too much dejection.