T 2.3.8.4

'Tis a quality very observable in human nature, that any opposition, which does not entirely discourage and intimidate us, has rather a contrary effect, and inspires us with a more than ordinary grandeur and magnanimity. In collecting our force to overcome the opposition, we invigorate the soul, and give it an elevation with which otherwise it wou'd never have |been acquainted. Compliance, by rendering our strength useless, makes us insensible of it; but opposition awakens and employs it.