Gefunden 616 Ergebnisse für: Good Works
Protected by her own industry and good repute, she greets the morrow with a smile. (Proverbs 31, 25)
how I resolved at last to deny myself the comfort of wine, wisdom now all my quest, folly disowned? For I could not rest until I knew where man’s true good lay, what was his life’s true task, here under the sun.✻ (Ecclesiastes 2, 3)
Here is one that works alone, partner nor son nor brother to aid him, yet still works on, never content with his bright hoard, never asking, as he toils and stints himself, who shall gain by it. Frustration and lost labour, here too. (Ecclesiastes 4, 8)
if only a man never sees the sun, never learns the meaning of good fortune and ill! (Ecclesiastes 6, 5)
There is no embalming like a good name left behind; man’s true birthday is the day of his death. (Ecclesiastes 7, 2)
Great worth has wisdom matched with good endowment; more advantage it shall bring thee than all the rest, here under the sun. (Ecclesiastes 7, 12)
Come good times, accept the good they bring; come evil, let them never take thee unawares; bethink thee, that God has balanced these against those, and will have no man repine over his lot. (Ecclesiastes 7, 15)
I have seen godless men go peacefully to the grave, that had lived their lives out in haunts of holiness, and won the name of good men from their fellow citizens; here, too, is frustration.✻ (Ecclesiastes 8, 10)
This remains as yet uncertain, and meanwhile all have the same lot, upright and godless, good and wicked, clean and unclean alike. Brought they offerings or brought they none, well did they or ill, true swore they or false, it is all one. (Ecclesiastes 9, 2)
no love, no hatred, no envy can they feel; they have said good-bye to this world, and to all its busy doings, here under the sun. (Ecclesiastes 9, 6)
There was a small city once, with few men to hold it; and there was a great king that marched out against it, raised a mound and ringed it with siege-works, till it was beleaguered on every side. (Ecclesiastes 9, 14)
Ay, it is good to look upon, the light of day; never was eye yet but loved to see the sun. (Ecclesiastes 11, 7)
