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.
Burke describes the intensity of passionate feelings, contrasting them with more subdued emotions.
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