'When your notions are properly considered, by the solid light of reas

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‘You carry your notions too far; excesses are dangerous, and it is easy to degenerate. The extreme of pain / approaches pleasure, and the extreme of pleasure is bounded by pain; for certainly the height of joy borders on agony; the soul is sick with the intenseness of its feelings, and vainly seeks for vent, till, overpowered by its aching sensations, it sinks into anguish.

'When your notions are properly considered, by the solid light of reason, they will resemble glow-worms, whose false glare disappears beneath the rays of the sun, and shows them as they really are — paltry insects, which can only glitter in darkness.'

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