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Eyesores alike, the rogue to honest men the plain-dealer to villains. (Let the son heed a father’s warnings, he shall fear no ruin.✻ ) (Proverbs 29, 27)
the wise man had eyes in his head, while the fool went his way benighted; but the ending of them? In their ending both were alike. (Ecclesiastes 2, 14)
Endlessly forgotten, wise man and fool alike, since to-morrow’s memory will be no longer than yesterday’s; wise man and fool alike doomed to death. (Ecclesiastes 2, 16)
and he, meanwhile, has made the world, in all its seasonable beauty, and given us the contemplation✻ of it, yet of his own dealings with us, first and last, never should man gain comprehension. (Ecclesiastes 3, 11)
After all, man comes to the same ending as the beasts; there is nothing to choose between his lot and theirs; both alike are doomed to die. They have but one principle of life; what has man that the beasts have not? Frustration everywhere; (Ecclesiastes 3, 19)
Nay, I understood too well that God’s dealings with man, here under the sun, are past all accounting for; the more a man labours to read that riddle, the less he finds out, and he least of all, that boasts himself wise in the reading of it. (Ecclesiastes 8, 17)
This remains as yet uncertain, and meanwhile all have the same lot, upright and godless, good and wicked, clean and unclean alike. Brought they offerings or brought they none, well did they or ill, true swore they or false, it is all one. (Ecclesiastes 9, 2)
Of all that goes amiss, here under the sun, nothing does more hurt than this equality of fortunes; what wonder if men’s hearts, while yet they live, are full of malice and defiance? And so they journey on to the grave. (Ecclesiastes 9, 3)
Were but immortality the prize! But no, hope of that is none; living dog is better off than dead lion. (Ecclesiastes 9, 4)
Though a prince’s anger should mount against thee, do not desert thy post; great harm by thy healing touch may yet be assuaged. (Ecclesiastes 10, 4)
what meant his creation, but that all created things should have being? No breed has he created on earth but for its thriving; none carries in itself the seeds of its own destruction. Think not that mortality bears sway on earth;✻ (Wisdom of Solomon 1, 14)
Share we the revels all alike, leave traces everywhere of our joyous passing; no part or lot have we but this. (Wisdom of Solomon 2, 9)
