"Of the positive joys of heaven we can form no conception; but its
negative delights form a sufficiently attractive picture,--no pain; no
thirst; no hunger; no horror of the past; no fear of the future; no
failure of mental capacity; no intellectual deficiency; no morbid
imaginations; no follies; no stupidities; but above all, no insulted
feelings; no wounded affections; no despised love or unrequited regard;
no hate, envy, jealousy, or indignation of or at others; no falsehood,
dishonesty, dissimulation, hypocrisy, grief or remorse. In a word," said
Professor Wilson, "to end where I began, no sin and no suffering."
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