Fondare 673 Risultati per: Death Of Agag

• One hour of misery, how it can efface in the memory long years of ease! Only a man’s death-bed brings the full history of his fortunes to light. (Ecclesiasticus 11, 29)

• Bethink thee that death waits not; there is no putting off thy tryst with the grave; nothing in this world, but its death-warrant is out already. (Ecclesiasticus 14, 12)

• life and death, blessing and curse, man finds set before him, and the gift given thee shall be the choice thou makest; (Ecclesiasticus 15, 18)

• From paying thy vows✻ let naught ever hinder thee; shall death find thee still shrinking from acquitting thyself of the task? God’s award stands for ever. (Ecclesiasticus 18, 22)

• A foul blot it is, to take pride in wrong-doing; a courting of death, to despise reproof; a riddance of much mischief, to forswear chattering. (Ecclesiasticus 19, 5)

• How smoothly paved is the path of sinners! Yet death lies at the end of it, and darkness, and doom. (Ecclesiasticus 21, 11)

• but the fool’s life is empty beyond the emptiness of death; (Ecclesiasticus 22, 12)

• Sin of speech there is, too, that has death for its counterpart; God send it be not found in Jacob’s chosen race;✻ (Ecclesiasticus 23, 15)

• and the false charge preferred, all these make death itself seem a light thing. (Ecclesiasticus 26, 7)

• For all who triumph at the ill fortune of the just, a snare to catch them, and a long remorse before death takes them! (Ecclesiasticus 27, 32)

• Heat is gendered by the haste of rivalry, and bloodshed by hot blood; but it is tongue of witness that brings death. (Ecclesiasticus 28, 13)

• Here is death worse than death itself, here is loss the grave cannot outvie. (Ecclesiasticus 28, 25)