Gefunden 1081 Ergebnisse für: Great Harlot

• Yet, where there is no sin to smite a man’s conscience, a full purse is a blessing, and poverty itself is a great evil when it goes with a blasphemer’s tongue.✻ (Ecclesiasticus 13, 30)

• Never think to hide thyself away from God; never tell thyself, from that great height none shall regard thee; (Ecclesiasticus 16, 16)

• Why, the very heavens, and the heavens that are above the heavens, the great deep, and the whole earth with all it contains, shrink away at the sight of him; (Ecclesiasticus 16, 18)

• He will go from bad to worse, that clings to a harlot’s love; waste and worm shall have him for their prize; one gibbet the more, one living soul the less. (Ecclesiasticus 19, 3)

• Better a simpleton that wit has none, yet knows fear, than a man of great address, that breaks the law of the most High. (Ecclesiasticus 19, 21)

• The wise word brings a man to honour; prudence will endear thee to the great. (Ecclesiasticus 20, 29)

• Browbeat and oppress the poor, thy own wealth shall dwindle; riches that are grown too great the proud cannot long enjoy; pride shrivels wealth. (Ecclesiasticus 21, 5)

• Spoilt son thou shalt beget to thy shame, spoilt daughter to thy great loss; (Ecclesiasticus 22, 3)

• Not thine to bring shame on father and mother. There are great ones all around thee; (Ecclesiasticus 23, 18)

• what if thyself God should disregard, when thou art in their company? Then shall this ill custom of thine strike thee dumb✻ and bring thee to great dishonour; thou wilt wish thou hadst never been, and rue the day of thy birth. (Ecclesiasticus 23, 19)

• so deep are her thoughts, sea-deep, so dark her counsels, dark as the great abyss. (Ecclesiasticus 24, 39)

• Woman that is a sot, vexation shall bring thee, and great dishonour; there is no hiding her shame. (Ecclesiasticus 26, 11)