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in life how eagerly imitated, in death how long regretted, in eternity how crowned with triumph, the conquest gained in fields of honourable striving! (Wisdom of Solomon 4, 2)
ripe of age when his life is stainless. (Wisdom of Solomon 4, 9)
Did they know it, the death of the just man, with its promise early achieved, is a reproach to the wicked that live yet in late old age. (Wisdom of Solomon 4, 16)
What advantage has it brought us, all our pomp and pride? How are we the better for all our vaunted wealth? (Wisdom of Solomon 5, 8)
The ship that ploughs angry waves, what trace is left of her passage? How wilt thou track her keel’s pathway through the deep? (Wisdom of Solomon 5, 10)
A word, then, for kings’ ears to hear, kings’ hearts to heed; a message for you, rulers, wherever you be! (Wisdom of Solomon 6, 2)
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)
she, the glow that radiates from eternal light, she, the untarnished mirror of God’s majesty, she, the faithful image of his goodness. (Wisdom of Solomon 7, 26)
Alone, with none to aid her, she is all-powerful; herself ever unchanged, she makes all things new; age after age she finds her way into holy men’s hearts, turning them into friends and spokesmen of God. (Wisdom of Solomon 7, 27)
She, too, will bring me immortality; imperishable the name I shall leave to after ages. (Wisdom of Solomon 8, 13)
She made a passage for them through the Red Sea, brought them safely through those leagues of water, (Wisdom of Solomon 10, 18)
