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No act of thine but God will bring it under his scrutiny, deep beyond all thy knowing, and pronounce it good or evil. (Ecclesiastes 12, 14)
mouth soft to my love’s caress✻ as good wine is soft to the palate, as food to lips and teeth. (Song of Solomon 7, 9)
A good friend to man is this spirit of wisdom, that convicts the blasphemer of his wild words; God can witness his secret thoughts, can read his heart unerringly, and shall his utterance go unheard? (Wisdom of Solomon 1, 6)
Reason they offer, yet reason all amiss. Their hearts tell them, So brief our time here, so full of discomfort, and death brings no remedy! Never a man yet made good his title to have come back from the grave! (Wisdom of Solomon 2, 1)
A noble harvest good men reap from their labours; wisdom is a root which never yet cast its crop. (Wisdom of Solomon 3, 15)
He that would find soul’s health, holy must be and hallowed precepts observe; master these he must, if he would make good his defence. (Wisdom of Solomon 6, 11)
I was, indeed, a boy of good parts, and nobility of nature had fallen to my lot; (Wisdom of Solomon 8, 19)
With Moses set apart for his spokesman,✻ to what good issue he brought all their enterprises! (Wisdom of Solomon 11, 1)
So it was with the former inhabitants of this thy holy land. Good reason thou hadst to be their enemy; (Wisdom of Solomon 12, 3)
What folly it argues in man’s nature, this ignorance of God! So much good seen, and he, who is existent Good,✻ not known! Should they not learn to recognise the Artificer by the contemplation of his works? (Wisdom of Solomon 13, 1)
How should it set forward his journeyings, that cannot walk? What service should it do, if trade he want, or skill, or good fortune, that is every way unserviceable? (Wisdom of Solomon 13, 19)
Despise we not the potter’s toil, that works the pliant earth between his fingers, and makes a cup here, a dish there for our use. Serve they noble ends or base, all alike come from the same clay, and what employment each of them shall find, it is the potter’s right to determine. (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 7)
