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If a man's conduct cannot be ascribed to the angelic, nor to the bestial / within him, what is there left for us to refer to it, but the fiendish? / Passion without any appetite is fiendish.
The best way to bring a clever young man, who has become sceptical and / unsettled, to reason, is to make him _feel_ something in any way. Love, if / sincere and unworldly, will, in nine instances out of ten, bring him to a / sense and assurance of something real and actual; and that sense alone will / make him _think_ to a sound purpose, instead of dreaming that he is / thinking.
"Never marry but for love," says William Penn in his Reflexions and Maxims; / "but see that thou lovest what is lovely. "