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perfectly understood'

Emily assured him, that his advice was et it, or cease fro to profit by it

St Aubert smiled affectionately and sorrowfully upon her 'I repeat

it,' said he, 'I would not teach you to become insensible, if I could;

I would only warn you of the evils of susceptibility, and point out

how you may avoid them Beware, my love, I conjure you, of that

self-delusion, which has been fatal to the peace of so racefulness of sensibility; if you

yield to this vanity, your happiness is lost for ever Always reth of fortitude, than the grace of

sensibility Do not, however, confound fortitude with apathy; apathy

cannot know the virtue Remember, too, that one act of beneficence,

one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentirace, instead of an ornaood actions The miser, who thinks himself respectable, merely

because he possesses wealth, and thus ood,

for the actual accomplishment of it, is not more blameable than the man

of sentiment, without active virtue You ht so much in this sort of sensibility to sentiment, which excludes

that to the calls of any practical virtue, that they turn fros are painful to be

contemplated, do not endeavour to relieve them How despicable is that

hue!'