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WE should then be able to expel this most injurious passion from our
hearts, so that by spiritual meditation we may keep our mind constantly
occupied with hope of the future and contemplation of the promised
blessedness. For in this way we shall be able to get the better of all
those sorts of dejection, whether those which flow from previous anger or
those which come to us from disappointment of gain, or from some loss, or
those which spring from a wrong done to us, or those which arise from an
unreasonable disturbance of mind, or those which bring on us a deadly
despair, if, ever joyful with an insight into things eternal and future,
and continuing immovable, we are not depressed by present accidents, or
over-elated by prosperity, but look on each condition as uncertain and
likely soon to pass away.
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