to rule their opinions or their actions by our word, to create a stir by our movements, while men cry, “Bow the knee,” before us; but none knows so well how vain is the world’s praise, as he who has it. And why is this? It is, in a word, because the soul was made for religious employments and pleasures; and hence, that no temporal blessings, however exalted or refined, can satisfy it. As well might we attempt to sustain the body on chaff, as to feed and nourish the immortal soul with the pleasures
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