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It is not pity that you feel; you lament only because the victim of your malignity is withdrawn from your power.

Yet even thus I loved them to adoration; and to save them, I resolved to dedicate myself to my most abhorred task. The prospect of such an occupation made every other circumstance of existence pass before me like a dream, and that thought only had to me the reality of life.

I endeavored to crush these fears, and to fortify myself for the trial which in a few months I resolved to undergo; and sometimes I allowed my thoughts, unchecked by reason, to ramble in the fields of Paradise, and dared to fancy amiable and lovely creatures sympathising with my feelings and cheering my gloom; their angelic countenances breathed smiles on consolation. But it was all a dream.

My spirits were elevated by the enchanting appearence of nature; the past was blotted from my memory, the present was tranquil, and the future gilded by bright rays of hope, and anticipations of joy.

I was often tempted , when all was at peace around me, and I the only unquiet thing that wandered restless in a scene so beautiful and heavenly, (...) to plunge into the silent lake, that the waters might close over me and my calamities forever.

"But I was not the witness of his grief; for I was lifeless, and did not recover my senses for a long, long time."

A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind, and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquillity. (...) If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections, and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is certainly unlawful, that is to say, not befitting the human mind.