Talált 3833 Eredmények: Red

• the stones we have scattered we must bring together anew; court we first and then shun the embrace. (Ecclesiastes 3, 5)

• To-day’s gain, tomorrow’s loss; what once we treasured, soon thrown away; (Ecclesiastes 3, 6)

• love alternating with hatred, war with peace. (Ecclesiastes 3, 8)

• Sure as dreams come from an overwrought brain, from glib utterance comes ill-considered speech. (Ecclesiastes 5, 2)

• Thou seest, it may be, in this province or that, oppression of the poor, false award given, and wrong unredressed? Let not such things bewilder thee; trust me, authority is watched by higher authority, subject in turn to higher authority yet; (Ecclesiastes 5, 7)

• Full belly or empty, sound is the cottar’s sleep; sleep, to the pampered body of the rich still denied. (Ecclesiastes 5, 11)

• Ay, let a man have a hundred children to his name, years let him have a many, and be near his end; yet, if he is not to enjoy the revenues of his land still, and lay his bones in it,✻ I say it were better for him never to have come to the birth. (Ecclesiastes 6, 3)

• Why then, do not set too much store by piety, nor play the wise man to excess, if thou wouldst not be bewildered over thy lot. (Ecclesiastes 7, 17)

• And yet, though the sinner presume on the divine patience that has borne with a hundred misdeeds, I know well enough that blessings are for those who fear God, who fear his frown. (Ecclesiastes 8, 12)

• All this, too, I pondered in my heart, and would spare no pains to find out the meaning of it. Here are upright men and wise; and every task of theirs is in God’s keeping, nor can any tell whether they have earned his love, or his displeasure! (Ecclesiastes 9, 1)

• no love, no hatred, no envy can they feel; they have said good-bye to this world, and to all its busy doings, here under the sun. (Ecclesiastes 9, 6)

• Nor does man see his end coming; hooked fish or snared bird is not overtaken so suddenly as man is, when the day of doom falls on him unawares. (Ecclesiastes 9, 12)