••appy, without regarding who was the ••uthor of his prosperity. But gratitude is ••ot to be satisfied in this manner. If the person to whom we owe many obliga|••ions, is made happy without our assist|••nce, though it pleases our love, it does ••ot content our gratitude. Till we have ••ecompensed him, till we ourselves have ••een instrumental in promoting his hap|••iness, we feel ourselves still loaded with ••hat debt which his past services have laid ••pon us.
The hatred and dislike, in the same manner, which grow upon habitual dis|••pprobation, would often lead us to take •• malicious pleasure in the misfortune ••f the man whose conduct and character ••xcite so painful a passion. But though ••islike and hatred harden us against all ••ympathy, and sometimes dispose us even ••o rejoice at the distress of another, yet, ••f there is no resentment in the case, if ••either we nor our friends have received ••ny great personal provocation, these ••assions would not naturally lead us to wish to be instrumental in bringing it ••bout. Though we could fear no punish|ment in consequence of our having had
