The habitually trained Forethought or Attention is here a _great_ aid to perception.
_To read or study keenly and observantly_.

This is a faculty which can be very much aided by forethought and self-suggestion.
_To forgive and forget enemies and injuries_.

Allied to it is the forgetting and ignoring of all things which annoy, vex, harrass, tease or worry us in any way whatever.

To expect perfect immunity in this respect from the unavoidable ills of life is absurd; but having paid great attention to the subject, and experimented largely on it, I cannot resist declaring that it seems to me in very truth that no remedy for earthly suffering was yet discovered equal to this.

I generally put the wish into this form: "I will forget and forgive all causes of enmity and anger, and should they arise I determine at once to cast them aside." It is a prayer, as it were, to the Will to stand by me, and truly the will is _Deus in nobis_ to those who believe that God helps those who help themselves.