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Rh It is a well-known remark, that our very wihes give us not our wih. I have often thought it might be et down as a maxim, that the greatet diappointment we can meet with is the gratification of our fondet wihes. But truth is ometimes not pleaant; we turn from it, and doat on an illuion; and if we were not in a probationary tate, we hould do well to thicken the cloud, rather than dipel it. There are ome who delight in oberving moral beauty, and their ouls icken when forced to view crimes and follies which could never hurt them. How numerous are the orrows which reach