This mistake misleads us, both in the choice of the good we aim at, and very often in the means to it, when it is a remote good.

But, which way ever it be, either by placing it where really it is not, or by neglecting the means as not necessary to it;--when a man misses his great end, happiness, he will acknowledge he judged not right.

That which contributes to this mistake is the real or supposed unpleasantness of the actions which are the way to this end; it seeming so preposterous a thing to men, to make themselves unhappy in order to happiness, that they do not easily bring themselves to it.
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We can change the Agreeableness or Disagreeableness in Things.
The last inquiry, therefore, concerning this matter is,--Whether it be in a man's power to change the pleasantness and unpleasantness that accompanies any sort of action?
And as to that, it is plain, in many cases he can.

Men may and should correct their palates, and give relish to what either has, or they suppose has none.