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Ecclesiastes - ch 7 v 1 - 20
- A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of one's birth.
- It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting: in that that is the end of all men, and the living taketh it to heart.
- Vexation is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.
- The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools in the house of mirth.
- It is better for a man to hear the rebuke of the wise, than to hear the song of fools.
- For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This also is vanity.
- Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad, and a gift destroyeth the heart.
- Better is the end of a thing than its beginning; better is a patient spirit than a proud spirit.
- Be not hasty in thy spirit to be vexed; for vexation resteth in the bosom of fools.
- Say not, How is it that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this.
- Wisdom is as good as an inheritance, and profitable to them that see the sun.
- For wisdom is a defence as money is a defence; but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom maketh them that possess it to live.
- Consider the work of God; for who can make straight what he hath made crooked?
- In the day of prosperity enjoy good, and in the day of adversity consider: God hath also set the one beside the other, to the end that man should find out nothing of what shall be after him.
- All this have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a righteous man that perisheth by his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his days by his wickedness.
- Be not righteous overmuch; neither make thyself overwise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself?
- Be not overmuch wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?
- It is good that thou shouldest take hold of this; yea, also from that withdraw not thy hand: for he that feareth God cometh forth from them all.
- Wisdom strengtheneth the wise more than ten mighty men that are in a city.
- Surely there is not a righteous man upon earth, that doeth good and sinneth not.
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