Fondare 218 Risultati per: Gift

• No living man but is thankful for the gift given; and it is ill done to withhold thy favours even from the dead. (Ecclesiasticus 7, 37)

• 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)

• Not more welcome the dew, tempering the sun’s heat, than the giver’s word, that counts for more than the gift. (Ecclesiasticus 18, 16)

• Better the gracious word than the gracious gift; but, wouldst thou acquit thyself perfectly, let both be thine. (Ecclesiasticus 18, 17)

• Wise man that has the gift of utterance does more than wisely live; no stranger to truth and right, he is a fountain of true sayings and of right awards. (Ecclesiasticus 18, 29)

• Gift given may bring thee nothing in return, or twice its worth. (Ecclesiasticus 20, 10)

• Little will the fool’s gift profit thee; seven times magnified is all he sees.✻ (Ecclesiasticus 20, 14)

• The paltrier the gift, the longer the admonitions that go with it, and every word of his an incitement to anger. (Ecclesiasticus 20, 15)

• Hospitality here, a gift there, how they blind the eyes of justice! No better gag to silence reproof. (Ecclesiasticus 20, 31)

• It is I that give birth to all noble loving, all reverence, all true knowledge, and the holy gift of hope. (Ecclesiasticus 24, 24)

• Never was honey so sweet as the influence I inspire, never honey-comb as the gift I bring; (Ecclesiasticus 24, 27)

• wisdom for the old, discernment for senators, and the gift of counsel! (Ecclesiasticus 25, 7)