"Set thine house in order."

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"Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven."

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"Our time is a very shadow that passeth away."

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"We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement."

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"I was wounded in the house of my friends."

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"In her tongue is the law of kindness."

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"Prisoners of hope."

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"Amend your ways and your doings."

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"The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid."

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"Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein."

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"A good name is better than precious ointment."

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"Your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions."

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"Peace, peace; when there is no peace."

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"The grinders cease because they are few."

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"How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!"

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"So they went their way, and the dog went after them."

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"It was founded upon a rock."

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"If I have done well, and as is fitting, . . . it is that which I desired; but if slenderly and meanly, it is that which I could attain unto."

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"According to the law of the Medes and Persians."

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"Wisdom is the gray hair unto men, and an unspotted life is old age."

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"Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was; and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it."

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"Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup; . . . at the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder."

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"One man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found."

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"Gladness of heart is the life of man, and the joyfulness of a man prolongeth his days."

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"Wisdom is justified of her children."

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"Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men!"

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"They think that they shall be heard for their much speaking."

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"Her children arise up and call her blessed."

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"Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain."

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"The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong."

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"Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets."

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"The tree is known by his fruit."

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"To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven."

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"Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him."

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"Observe the opportunity."

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"For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little."

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"Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil."

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"Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds before they be withered."

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"The stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water."

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"Let us eat and drink; for to-morrow we shall die."

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"The little foxes, that spoil the vines."

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"To eat, and to drink, and to be merry."

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"Answer a fool according to his folly."

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"Pearl of great price."

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"The desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose."

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"A threefold cord is not quickly broken."

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"Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted?"

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"Be not ignorant of anything in a great matter or a small."

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"The horseleech hath two daughters, crying, Give, give."

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"Whatsoever thou takest in hand, remember the end, and thou shalt never do amiss."

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