Chapter V: Part V: The Consolations of Affliction

I. _The Removal of Unhappiness._

Suffering is Unavoidable.――Where to Look for Consolation.――Two
Consoling Reflections.――Advantage of a Multitude of Miseries.――The
Habit of Unhappiness.――Some Require Ill Fortune.――Two Popular
Methods of Consolation.――Talk It Over, and Why.――Our Strange Claim
for Happiness.――The Tolerance of Suffering.――The Universal
Panacea.――Look Before and After.――Deal Justly by Yourself.――How to
Regard Incivility and Ingratitude.――Success Arising from
Failures.――Resignation, Sympathy.――Remember Your
Advantages.――Thoughts About Time and Death.

STROWINGS, pp. 248-280

II. _The Inseparable Connection of Pleasure and Pain._

Pleasure Requires Pain, and Joy Sorrow.――The Words of
Socrates.――Physiological Relations of Pleasure and Pain.――Their
Analogy to Joy and Sorrow.――The Oneness of the Pleasure-Pain
Sensation.――The Rhythm of Sensations and Emotions.――Pleasure
Derived from Pain, Joy from Sorrow.――Quotation from Leigh
Hunt.――Quotation from Sir Richard Steele.――Sadness the Best
Preparative for Gladness.――Influence of Time on Pleasures and
Pains.

STROWINGS, pp. 263-272

III. _The Education of Suffering._

What is Suffering?――The Human Passion of Sorrow.――Sorrow as the
Initiation into the Mysteries of Life.――The Noblest Prizes Won
Only by Suffering.――It is the Highest Inspiration of Religion and
Art.――It Alone Teaches the Elder Truths.――The Ministry of
Grief.――The Sweetness of Departed Joys.――The Compensations of
Loves that are Lost.――The Despair that is Divine.

STROWINGS, pp. 273-280