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e has done and said to you! What a singularly deep impression her injustice seems to have made on your heart! No ill…usage so brands its record on my feelings。 Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity; together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs。 We are; and must be; one and all; burdened with faults in this world: but the time will soon e when; I trust; we shall put them off in putting off our corruptible bodies; when debasement and sin will fall from us with this cumbrous frame of flesh; and only the spark of the spirit will remain;—the impalpable principle of light and thought; pure as when it left the Creator to inspire the creature: whence it came it will return; perhaps again to be municated to some being higher than man—perhaps to pass through gradations of glory; from the pale human soul to brighten to the seraph! Surely it will never; on the contrary; be suffered to degenerate from man to fiend? No; I cannot believe that: I hold another creed: which no one ever taught me; and which I seldom mention; but in which I delight; and to which I cling: for it extends hope to all: it makes Eternity a rest—a mighty home; not a terror and an abyss。 Besides; with this creed; I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last: with this creed revenge never worries my heart; degradation never too dee