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you not consider a person
foolish and absurd, who should extravagantly love and prize a drop of stagnant
water, and yet view the ocean with indifference or disgust? or who should
constantly grovel in the dust to admire a shining grain of sand, yet neglect to
admire the sun which caused it to shine? Of what folly and absurdity, then, are
we guilty, when we love the imperfectly amiable qualities of our fellow worms,
or admire the sublimity and beauty of the works of nature, and yet exercise no
love to him to whom they are indebted for all; him whose glory gilds the
heavens, and from whom angels derive everything that can excite admiration or
love.