MORAL DISTINCTIONS.

Those who are least anxious about your conduct are not those that

love you most. Moderate affection and satiated enjoyment are cold and

respectful; but an ardent and injured passion is tempered up with wrath,

and grief, and shame, and conscious worth, and the maddening sense of

violated right. A jealous love lights his torch from the firebrands of

the furies. They who call upon you to belong WHOLLY to the people, are

those who wish you to return to your PROPER home; to the sphere of your

duty, to the post of your honour, to the mansion-house of all genuine,

serene, and solid satisfaction.

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