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Some minds are temper'd happily & mixt With such ingredients of good sense, & taste Of what is Excellent in man; they thirst With such a zeal to be what they approve That no restraint can circumscribe them more Than they themselves, by choice, for virtue's sake, nor can underline Example /underline hurt them.-- Cowper

Before, I was unhappy, but the sweet approbation of Conscience shed a sacredness around my sorrows, --a sacrifice to virtue was a claim to happiness beyond the gratification of self --a martyrdom in the cause of underline right /underline finds & gives its own reward--but the stings of guilt dart their thorns with agonized acuteness into the heart. --In the one there is a noblenss nobleness which consoles by Elevating, in the other a guilty humiliation which precludes pity