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Sharp goads they are to sting us, sharp nails driven deep home, these wise words left to us by many masters, but all echoing one shepherd’s voice. (Ecclesiastes 12, 11)
Their case is pitiable indeed, who make light of true wisdom and of ordered living; vain their hope, profitless their toil, barren their achievement. (Wisdom of Solomon 3, 11)
A seniority there is that claims reverence, owing nothing to time, not measured by the lapse of years; count a man grey-haired when he is wise, (Wisdom of Solomon 4, 8)
Withhold it? Nay, the pale miser that grudges his store was never friend of mine; no such character befits the wise. (Wisdom of Solomon 6, 25)
God’s gift it is, if speech answers to thought of mine, and thought of mine to the message I am entrusted with. Who else can shew wise men the true path, check them when they stray? (Wisdom of Solomon 7, 15)
To every living thing its own breed, to every beast its own moods; the winds✻ rage, and men think deep thoughts; the plants keep their several kinds, and each root has its own virtue; (Wisdom of Solomon 7, 20)
kindly, gracious, steadfast, proof against all error and all solicitude. Nothing is beyond its power, nothing hidden from its view, and such capacity has it that it can pervade the minds of all living men; so pure and subtle an essence is thought. (Wisdom of Solomon 7, 23)
If thy desire be for honest living, man’s excellences are the fruit she labours to produce; temperance and prudence she teaches, justice and fortitude, and what in life avails man more? (Wisdom of Solomon 8, 7)
But to be master of myself was a thing I could not hope to come by, except of God’s bounty; I was wise enough already to know whence the gift came. So to the Lord I turned, and made my request of him, praying with all my heart in these words following: (Wisdom of Solomon 8, 21)
to order the world by a law of right living and of just dealing, and give true award in the honest purpose of his heart. (Wisdom of Solomon 9, 3)
Thou who once, into defiling blood, hadst troubled the sources of a living stream, (Wisdom of Solomon 11, 7)
But there are men more wretched yet, men who repose all their confidence in a world of shadows. They give the name of god to what is made by human art, gold and silver that human workmanship has turned into the likeness of living things, blocks of senseless stone that human hands have carved, long ago. (Wisdom of Solomon 13, 10)
