Fondare 343 Risultati per: Worldly Wisdom

• How shall he drink full draughts of wisdom that must guide the plough, that walks proud as any spearman while he goads on his team, all his life taken up with their labours, all his talk of oxen? (Ecclesiasticus 38, 26)

• This wisdom of his, extolled on every side, will never fall into oblivion; (Ecclesiasticus 39, 12)

• Wine and music make heart glad; best of all, the love of wisdom. (Ecclesiasticus 40, 20)

• My sons, here is wholesome teaching.✻ Wisdom hidden, I told you, is wasted, is treasure that never sees the light of day; (Ecclesiasticus 41, 17)

• silence is rightly used when it masks folly, not when it is the grave of wisdom. (Ecclesiasticus 41, 18)

• How great the wisdom that so ordered all things, his wisdom who has neither beginning nor end; nothing may be added, (Ecclesiasticus 42, 21)

• and at the Lord’s word the chill blast dies away.What else but divine wisdom tamed the rising of the seas,✻ and planted the islands there? (Ecclesiasticus 43, 25)

• and of all things the Lord is maker. Yet, live thou in the worship of him, wisdom thou shalt have for thy reward. (Ecclesiasticus 43, 37)

• Here were men that had power and bore rule, men that excelled in strength, or in the wisdom that dowered them; prophets that worthily upheld the name of prophecy, (Ecclesiasticus 44, 3)

• Their wisdom is yet a legend among the people; wherever faithful men assemble, their story is told. (Ecclesiasticus 44, 15)

• and there, face to face, imparting commandments to him, the law that gives life and wisdom; here, Jacob, was thy covenant, here Israel, the rule thou wast to live by. (Ecclesiasticus 45, 6)

• Deep as a river flowed thy wisdom; thy ambition it was to lay bare all the secrets of earth; (Ecclesiasticus 47, 16)