Löydetty 722 Tulokset: Ton

• Tongue that comes between two friends, how many it has exiled, sent them to wander far away, (Ecclesiasticus 28, 16)

• Whip that lashes does but bruise the skin; tongue that lashes will break bones; (Ecclesiasticus 28, 21)

• the sword has killed many, the tongue more. (Ecclesiasticus 28, 22)

• Blessed is he that is preserved from the tongue’s wickedness, that has never felt its fury, never borne its yoke or worn its chains; (Ecclesiasticus 28, 23)

• Fence thy ears about with thorns, and give the wicked tongue no hearing; make fast thy mouth with bolt and bar. (Ecclesiasticus 28, 28)

• do all that lies in thee to keep thy tongue from speaking amiss, lest lurking enemies triumph over thy ruin, the fatal and final ruin that shall be thine. (Ecclesiasticus 28, 30)

• take sparingly the good things set before thee, nor court ill-will by thy gluttony. (Ecclesiasticus 31, 19)

• this thy sacrifice of amends for wrong done, of atonement for fault, to shun wrong-doing. (Ecclesiasticus 35, 3)

• The savour of venison only palate can reach; only wise heart can discern lying tongue. (Ecclesiasticus 36, 21)

• What of her tongue? If that, too, has power to charm, if that is soft and gentle, never was man so blessed. (Ecclesiasticus 36, 25)

• Ill counsel may make the heart veer round; four points its compass has, good and evil, life and death; and it is ever the tongue that sways it.✻ Shrewdness there is that can much impart, yet is its own enemy. (Ecclesiasticus 37, 21)

• much feasting breeds infirmity, gluttony the bile, (Ecclesiasticus 37, 33)