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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)

• Divine favour, divine love banished him from a life he shared with sinners; (Wisdom of Solomon 4, 10)

• We, poor fools, mistook the life they lived for madness, their death for ignominy; (Wisdom of Solomon 5, 4)

• Far, it seems, did our thoughts wander from the true path; never did the ray of justice enlighten them, never the true sun shone. (Wisdom of Solomon 5, 6)

• Weary it proved, the reckless way of ruin, lonely were the wastes we travelled, who missed the path the Lord meant for us. (Wisdom of Solomon 5, 7)

• So with us it was all one, our coming to birth and our ceasing to be; no trace might we leave behind us of a life well lived; we spent ourselves on ill-doing. (Wisdom of Solomon 5, 13)

• By one gate all enter life, by one gate all leave it. (Wisdom of Solomon 7, 6)

• 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)

• Or should life’s dearest aim be wealth? Why then, who has more wealth at her disposal than wisdom, that turns all to account? (Wisdom of Solomon 8, 5)

• 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)

• Hard enough to read the riddle of our life here, with laborious search ascertaining what lies so close to hand; and would we trace out heaven’s mysteries too? (Wisdom of Solomon 9, 16)