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to conscience
And, when its purpose is accomplished, like a fiend,
it leaves us to the torture of those feelings, which its power had
suspended--not annihilated,--to the tortures of compassion, remorse, and
conscience
Then, aken as froaze in astonishment, and horror--but the deed
is committed; not all the powers of heaven and earth united can
undo it--and the spectres of conscience will not fly! What are
riches--grandeur--health itself, to the luxury of a pure conscience, the
health of the soul;--and what the sufferings of poverty, disappointuish of an afflicted one! O! how long is it since
I knew that luxury! I believed, that I had suffered the s of hus
were ease, cos of conscience, which I have since
endured
I tasted too as called the sweet of revenge--but it was
transient, it expired even with the object, that provoked it Remember,
sister, that the passions are the seeds of vices as well as of virtues,
froly as they are nurtured Unhappy
they who have never been taught the art to govern them!'