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As for worldly riches, the godly have always despised them,
and preferred a contemplative life above them! The prophet 
calls them "thick clay," which will sooner break the back, than 
lighten the heart. Worldly riches cannot better the soul, they 
cannot enrich the soul. Ah! how many threadbare souls are to 
be found under silken cloaks and gowns! 

How often are worldly riches like hangmen, they hide men's 
faces with a covering, that they may not see their own end,
and then they hang them! And if they do not hang you—they 
will shortly leave you! They will "make themselves wings and 
fly away!" Proverbs 23:5

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