Fondare 281 Risultati per: Joy

• A fool’s birthday is a day of shame; never father had joy of a reckless son. (Proverbs 17, 21)

• Joy there is and pride in an upright man’s begetting for the glad father of a wise son; (Proverbs 23, 24)

• such joy let thy father have, such pride be hers, the mother who bore thee! (Proverbs 23, 25)

• A son well schooled is rest well earned; great joy thou shalt have of him. (Proverbs 29, 17)

• Next, I thought to give the rein to my desires, and enjoy pleasure, until I found that this, too, was labour lost. (Ecclesiastes 2, 1)

• Wouldst thou know how I learned to find laughter an empty thing, and all joy a vain illusion; (Ecclesiastes 2, 2)

• Eyes denied nothing that eyes could covet, a heart stinted of no enjoyment, free of all the pleasures I had devised for myself, this was to be my reward, this the fruit of all my labours. (Ecclesiastes 2, 10)

• and who has better right to food tasted and pleasure enjoyed than I? (Ecclesiastes 2, 25)

• To enjoy his life, to make the best of it, beyond doubt this is man’s highest employment; (Ecclesiastes 3, 12)

• What is his decree? Why, that covetousness should never fill its own maw; never did he that loved money taste the enjoyment of his money;✻ here is frustration once again. (Ecclesiastes 5, 9)

• Better far, by my way of it, that a man should eat and drink and enjoy the revenues of his own labour, here under the sun, as long as God gives him life; what more can he claim? (Ecclesiastes 5, 17)

• God’s gift it is, if a man has wealth and goods and freedom to enjoy them, taking what comes to him and profiting by what he has earned. (Ecclesiastes 5, 18)