Trouvé 675 Résultats pour: Folk Wisdom

• Withhold not thy counsel while safety may yet be won; thy wisdom is not to be hidden away like a veiled beauty. (Ecclesiasticus 4, 28)

• Wisdom still needs a tongue to disclose it; no discernment or knowledge or shrewd counsel but waits on the apt word; how else should men be encouraged in well doing? (Ecclesiasticus 4, 29)

• My son, learn the lessons of youth, and garner wisdom against thy grey hairs; (Ecclesiasticus 6, 18)

• how light the toil wisdom claims, the fruits of her how soon enjoyed! (Ecclesiasticus 6, 20)

• The enlightenment which comes with wisdom is true to its name; known to so few, yet where men are acquainted with it, it waits to light them into the presence of God.✻ (Ecclesiasticus 6, 23)

• Yield foot of thine to wisdom’s fetters, neck of thine to her collar, (Ecclesiasticus 6, 25)

• here is true knowledge for the listening, here is wisdom if thou wilt lend an ear. (Ecclesiasticus 6, 34)

• Think ever upon God’s commandments, and be constant in the following of his will; be sure he will give thee perseverance, and all thy desire for wisdom shall be granted thee. (Ecclesiasticus 6, 37)

• A wise ruler, a folk well disciplined; firm sits prudence on the throne. (Ecclesiasticus 10, 1)

• A man may be lowly born, and yet rise high through the wisdom that is in him, till at last he takes his seat among men of rank. (Ecclesiasticus 11, 1)

• And others are backward folk, that cannot hold their gains, men of little power and much poverty; (Ecclesiasticus 11, 12)

• in God’s keeping are wisdom and temperance and knowledge of the law, charity and the good life. (Ecclesiasticus 11, 15)