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• My son, bestow thy favours ungrudgingly, nor ever mar with harsh words the gladness of thy giving. (Ecclesiasticus 18, 15)

• The fool, by his scolding, mars all; never yet did eye brighten over a churl’s giving. (Ecclesiasticus 18, 18)

• darkness all about, and walls to shelter me, and none watching; what have I to fear? Sins like mine the most High will never mark. (Ecclesiasticus 23, 26)

• faint hand and flagging knee betoken one unblessed in his marriage. (Ecclesiasticus 25, 32)

• Make right-doing thy quest, and thou wilt not miss the mark; this shall be a robe of honour to clothe thee, a welcome guest in thy house, to watch over thee continually, and to be thy stronghold at the hour when all is made known. (Ecclesiasticus 27, 9)

• Sit thou at a rich man’s table, be not quick to remark upon it; (Ecclesiasticus 31, 12)

• and in their pleasure rejoice, accepting the crown that marks their favour, the honour bestowed by their gifts. (Ecclesiasticus 32, 3)

• yet the Lord, in the plenitude of his wisdom, has marked them off from one another, not giving the same destiny to each. (Ecclesiasticus 33, 11)

• Under duress he toils, what marvel if ease should tempt him? Leave his hands idle, and he will seek to be his own master. (Ecclesiasticus 33, 26)

• Shew new marvels, and portents stranger still; (Ecclesiasticus 36, 6)

• Were not the waters of Mara made wholesome by the touch of wood?✻ (Ecclesiasticus 38, 5)

• Well for us men, that the secret virtue of such remedies has been revealed; skill the most High would impart to us, and for his marvels win renown. (Ecclesiasticus 38, 6)