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Our passions too have then time to cool, and to view things in their proper colours. The rage of ambition will subside, when reflection shews is the emptiness of earthly honours. The fire of lust will burn with less violence, when reason has time to tell us, that remorse and shame are its inseparable companions. The stings of animosity and revenge will operate less forcibly, when we will give ourselves leave to remember, that friends and foes will soon lie down together in the dust. The arrows of affliction will give us less pain, when meditation informs us that they are but for a moment, and cannot follow us to that better country, where all Tears are wiped away from all faces. It is another advantage of meditation, that it teaches us that best of all knowledge, which
