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The qualities useful agreeable to ourselves, are according to Hume, Cheerfulness,
Dignity or Magnanimity, Courage & Tranquillity.

Cheerfulness, in so far as it is a natural disposition is not a virtue –
in so far as it is acquired, it is prudence. It is the being pleased &
the giving expression to the sense of pleasure. It is to a very great extent
an endowment of a particular constitutional temperament. Virtue is
that something which can be excited by effort it is something which obeys our
commands – but a disposition to sadness, or a disposition to gladness
does not obey our commands. By study we may diminish the one
& increase the other, and by so doing we give evidence of, & exercise
to self regarding prudence. By far the larger portion of cheerfulness
is inherent, though enjoyment acts upon it & tends greatly to the its
increase of. The habit of doing good – as benevolence has been
called, is the best instructor how to make instruments of
cheerfulness. Every new friend a source of future pleasure &
of exemption from future pain.

Dignity, when a virtue is extra-regarding prudence – it may be
exhibited in behaviour, – or it may be the exhibition alone of the
instruments of dignity.

Courage –may be a virtue – or may be a vice. To a great extent it
is a natural quality – it does not always imply self-denial – nor always
exhibit benevolence. It may be an instrument perhaps more properly said that courage is neither
a virtue nor a vice, but an instrument of either, its character depending wholly on its application.
its application+

Tranquillity is insensibility to external causes of suffering & especially
of sufferi remote suffering. Any man desires to keep in view objects
that are agreeable & out of view objects that are disagreeable.

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