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• Oppression bewilders even a wise man’s wits, and undermines his courage.✻ (Ecclesiastes 7, 8)

• Great worth has wisdom matched with good endowment; more advantage it shall bring thee than all the rest, here under the sun. (Ecclesiastes 7, 12)

• Here is a mind that has passed the whole world of things in review, examining everything, weighing everything, so as to have a wise estimation of them, eager to understand the fool’s rebelliousness, the false calculations of rash souls. (Ecclesiastes 7, 26)

• Arms cannot match wisdom; by one slip,✻ what great advantage is lost! (Ecclesiastes 9, 18)

• 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)

• One day, palsy will shake those door-keepers, those stalwart guards will be bowed with age; rarer, now, the busy maidens at the mill, dimmer, now, those bright glances from the windows. (Ecclesiastes 12, 3)

• Come with me, my true love; for us the country ways, the cottage roof for shelter. (Song of Solomon 7, 11)

• never yet did wisdom find her way into the schemer’s heart, never yet made her home in a life mortgaged to sin. (Wisdom of Solomon 1, 4)

• No better than false coin he counts us, holds aloof from our doings as though they would defile him; envies the just their future happiness, boasts of a divine parentage. (Wisdom of Solomon 2, 16)

• Outrage and torment, let these be the tests we use; let us see that gentleness of his in its true colours, find out what his patience is worth. (Wisdom of Solomon 2, 19)

• God, to be sure, framed man for an immortal destiny, the created image of his own endless being; (Wisdom of Solomon 2, 23)

• Live they long, they shall be held in no regard, in their late age unhonoured; (Wisdom of Solomon 3, 17)