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capacities of man higher than these? And ought not his ambition and expectations to be greater? Let us be adventurers for another world: It is at least a fair and noble chance; and there is nothing in this worth our thoughts or our passions. If we should be disappointed, we are still no worse than the rest of our fellow-mortals; and if we succeed in our expectations, we are eternally happy. [[note]] No: 151. [[/note]] Pleasure, when it is a man's chief purpose, disappoints itself; and the constant application to it palls the faculty of enjoying it, though it leaves the sense of our inability for that we wish, with a disrelish of everything else. Thus the intermediate seasons of the man of pleasure are more heavy than one would impose upon the vilest criminal. Take him when he is awaked too soon after a debauch, or disappointed in following a worthless woman without truth, and there is no man living whose Being is such a weight or vexation as his his. He is an utter stranger to the pleasing reflexions in the evening of a well-spent day, or the gladness of heart or quietness of spirit in the morning after profound sleep or indolent slumbers. Pleasure seizes the whole man who addicts himself to it, and will not give him leisure for any good office in life which contradicts the
