"We spend our years as a tale that is told."

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"A merry heart doeth good like a medicine."

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"Every man at his best state is altogether vanity."

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"He fashioneth their hearts alike."

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"Open rebuke is better than secret love."

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"Is there anything whereof it may be said, See, this is new? It hath been already of old time, which was before us."

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"Whose merchants are princes."

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"It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting."

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"They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind."

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"Babylon is fallen, is fallen."

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"Walk with stretched-forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go."

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"The burden of the desert of the sea."

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"In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider."

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"By their fruits ye shall know them."

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"Be not righteous overmuch."

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"Whose talk is of bullocks."

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"Cast thy bread upon the waters; for thou shalt find it after many days."

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"Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid."

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"To the law and to the testimony."

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"When I was born I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature, and the first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do."

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"Great is truth, and mighty above all things."

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"There is no peace, saith the Lord, unto the wicked."

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"Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all."

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"Give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness."

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"Ye cannot serve God and Mammon."

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"Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you."

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"Man shall not live by bread alone."

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"A living dog is better than a dead lion."

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"Give me neither poverty nor riches."

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"Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them."

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"Wide is the gate and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction."

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"Vanity of vanities, . . . all is vanity."

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"For, lo! the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land."

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"Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure."

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"He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap."

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"They shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more."

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"Miss not the discourse of the elders."

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"The wicked flee when no man pursueth; but the righteous are bold as a lion."

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"There be of them that have left a name behind them."

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"Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth."

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"Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh."

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"Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend."

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"The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge."

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"He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter."

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"I have trodden the wine-press alone."

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"Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts."

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"The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies."

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"Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh."

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"Where there is no vision, the people perish."

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"For who hath despised the day of small things?"

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