Znaleziono 1507 Wyniki dla: Long Life
The bright beacon of wisdom, that never burns dim, how readily seen by eyes that long for it, how open to their search! (Wisdom of Solomon 6, 13)
By one gate all enter life, by one gate all leave it. (Wisdom of Solomon 7, 6)
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)
More than this, thou hast bidden me raise thee temple and altar, upon this mountain, in the holy city where thou dwellest, model of that holy tabernacle, made long ago, whose pattern was of thy own devising.✻ (Wisdom of Solomon 9, 8)
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)
wondered at Moses, whom their insolence had long ago disinherited, when they exposed him with the other children. Thirst, that had been Egypt’s enemy, had no terrors for the just. (Wisdom of Solomon 11, 15)
But there are men more wretched yet, men who repose all their confidence in a world of shadows. They give the name of god to what is made by human art, gold and silver that human workmanship has turned into the likeness of living things, blocks of senseless stone that human hands have carved, long ago. (Wisdom of Solomon 13, 10)
But one more piece of refuse wood is left, that is fit for nothing; so crooked is it and so gnarled. See him, in an idle moment, pick it up and spend his leisure carving it! A master craftsman this; ere long it has taken shape, made into a man’s likeness; (Wisdom of Solomon 13, 13)
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)
