Löydetty 722 Tulokset: Ton
Yet, where there is no sin to smite a man’s conscience, a full purse is a blessing, and poverty itself is a great evil when it goes with a blasphemer’s tongue.✻ (Ecclesiasticus 13, 30)
Be open with thy friend; tongues will still be clattering,✻ (Ecclesiasticus 19, 15)
and thou dost well to believe less than is told thee. Slips there are of the tongue when mind is innocent; (Ecclesiasticus 19, 16)
what tongue was ever perfectly guarded? Confront thy neighbour with his fault ere thou quarrellest with him, (Ecclesiasticus 19, 17)
Better a simpleton that wit has none, yet knows fear, than a man of great address, that breaks the law of the most High. (Ecclesiasticus 19, 21)
Reproof there is that no good brings, as the event shews; the mistaken reproof that anger prompts in a quarrel. And a man may shew prudence by holding his tongue. (Ecclesiasticus 19, 28)
Slip of a liar’s tongue is like slip from roof to ground; a villain’s end is not long a-coming. (Ecclesiasticus 20, 20)
Wouldst thou build thy fortunes on earnings that are none of thine? As well mightest thou lay in stones for winter fuel. (Ecclesiasticus 21, 9)
What ill names shall we hurl at the sluggard? Stone from the sewers, that has no man’s good word; (Ecclesiasticus 22, 1)
One stone flung, and the birds are all on the wing; one taunt uttered, and the friendship is past repair. (Ecclesiasticus 22, 25)
Oh for a sentry to guard this mouth of mine, a seal to keep these lips inviolate! From that snare may I be safe, nor ever let my tongue betray me! (Ecclesiasticus 22, 33)
Let the itch of gluttony pass me by, nor ever carnal lust overtake me; do not leave me, Lord, at the mercy of a shameless, an unprofitable mind! (Ecclesiasticus 23, 6)
