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• What wonder if the fool sits idle, and starves to death? (Ecclesiastes 4, 5)

• Naked he came, when he left his mother’s womb, and naked still death finds him; nothing to show for all his long endeavour. (Ecclesiastes 5, 14)

• What need for man to ask questions that are beyond his scope? There is no knowing how best his life should be spent, this brief pilgrimage that passes like a shadow, and is gone. And what will befall after his death, in this world beneath the sun, who can tell? (Ecclesiastes 7, 1)

• There is no embalming like a good name left behind; man’s true birthday is the day of his death. (Ecclesiastes 7, 2)

• Better a visit paid where men mourn, than where they feast; it will put thee in mind of the end that awaits us all, admonish the living with the foreknowledge of death. (Ecclesiastes 7, 3)

• And this I have ascertained; death itself is not so cruel as woman’s heart that wheedles and beguiles, as woman’s clutches that release their captive never. God’s friends escape her; of sinners she makes an easy prey. (Ecclesiastes 7, 27)

• The breath of life man must resign at last; the day of his death he cannot determine; nor ever does war give release from service, nor sin discharge to the sinner. (Ecclesiastes 8, 8)

• They live under sentence of death; and when death comes, of nothing will they be aware any longer; no reward can they receive, now that every trace of them has vanished away; (Ecclesiastes 9, 5)

• Thy neck rising proudly, nobly adorned, like David’s embattled tower, hung about with a thousand shields, panoply of the brave; (Song of Solomon 4, 4)

• Hold me close to thy heart, close as locket or bracelet fits; not death itself is so strong as love, not the grave itself cruel as love unrequited; the torch that lights it is a blaze of fire. (Song of Solomon 8, 6)

• Death for its goal, is not life’s aim missed? Labours he well, that labours to bring doom about his ears? (Wisdom of Solomon 1, 12)

• Death was never of God’s fashioning; not for his pleasure does life cease to be; (Wisdom of Solomon 1, 13)