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T IS vanity to seek perishing riches, and to trust in them. Vanity, also, it is, to court honors, and to lift up one’s self on high. It is vanity to follow the desires of the flesh; and to desire that, for which hereafter there must be a heavy penalty. It is vanity to wish a long life, and to take but little pains about a good life. It is vanity to attend only to the present life, and not to look forward to the things that are to come. It is vanity to love what is passing away with all speed, and not to be hasting thither where endless joy abideth. (I. 1.)

HE highest and most useful lesson we can learn is this, to know truly and to look down upon ourselves. To think nothing of ourselves, and always to judge well and highly of others, is great wisdom and high perfection. (I. 2.)