Znaleziono 1032 Wyniki dla: Life Of Tobias
Or should life’s dearest aim be wealth? Why then, who has more wealth at her disposal than wisdom, that turns all to account? (Wisdom of Solomon 8, 5)
If thy desire be for honest living, man’s excellences are the fruit she labours to produce; temperance and prudence she teaches, justice and fortitude, and what in life avails man more? (Wisdom of Solomon 8, 7)
Hard enough to read the riddle of our life here, with laborious search ascertaining what lies so close to hand; and would we trace out heaven’s mysteries too? (Wisdom of Solomon 9, 16)
Who but she, when the world was a-drowning for Cain’s fault,✻ gave it a second term of life, steering, on a paltry raft, one innocent man to safety? (Wisdom of Solomon 10, 4)
A weak, foolish thing, and for health he asks it; dead, and he will have life of it; shiftless, and he will have aid of it. (Wisdom of Solomon 13, 18)
So careful art thou that the gifts thy wisdom affords us should not go unused; man ventures his life on a few planks, and the frail barque gives him safe conduct across the waves. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 5)
And what marvel? At the beginning of all, when the giants perished in their pride, was not such a barque the refuge of all the world’s hopes? Yet thy hand was at the helm, and the seed of life was saved for posterity. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 6)
For indeed they were no part of man’s life from the first, nor shall be at the last; (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 13)
Peace, while there is no respect for life, or for wedlock undefiled; always the murderous ambush, the jealous pangs of a husband betrayed! (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 24)
But no, he never looks forward to the day when he will be past work; how short life is, he recks not; he must vie with goldsmith and silversmith, he must be even with his neighbour that works in bronze; in puppet-making✻ all his hope lies of winning fame. (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 9)
O heart of dust, O ambition worthless as the sand, life than his own clay more despicable! (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 10)
Existence, for him, only a toy to be played with; our life here, only a market-place, where a man must needs get his living by fair means or foul! (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 12)
