Fondare 1836 Risultati per: Age

• My sons, look back on the ages that are past; was ever man yet that trusted in the Lord, and was disappointed? (Ecclesiasticus 2, 11)

• and of his poverty take good heed; shall his baffled rage curse thee behind thy back? (Ecclesiasticus 4, 5)

• 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)

• Nor fail in respect for the aged; it is of our stuff grey hairs are made.✻ (Ecclesiasticus 8, 7)

• By skilful handiwork the artist is known, the ruler of a people by the prudence of his counsel, the good sense of the aged by their word spoken. (Ecclesiasticus 9, 24)

• wrong and crime and outrage and treacherous shift, that he punishes by passing on the sceptre of empire into new hands; (Ecclesiasticus 10, 8)

• shrivelled and vanished away, they have left no trace of their passage. (Ecclesiasticus 10, 20)

• Some men’s lives are all toil and haste and anxiety; yet the more they toil, the less advantage they win, for want of piety. (Ecclesiasticus 11, 11)

• Has he need of thee? Then, to be sure, he will ply his arts, all smiles and fair speeches, and eagerness to know what thy need is; (Ecclesiasticus 13, 7)

• welcome thou this merciful discipline of his, run thou eagerly to meet his will, and he will shew pity on thee. (Ecclesiasticus 18, 14)

• Hast thou heard a tale to thy neighbour’s disadvantage? Take it to the grave with thee. Courage, man! it will not burst thee. (Ecclesiasticus 19, 10)

• Warning she gives to after ages that God’s fear is best, nor sweeter lot is any than the divine law well observed. (Ecclesiasticus 23, 37)