"A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength."

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"Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun."

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"Every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth."

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"All is vanity and vexation of spirit."

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"Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting."

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"Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased."

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"Wizards that peep and that mutter."

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"A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench."

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"Grind the faces of the poor."

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"I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes."

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"Consider that I laboured not for myself only, but for all them that seek learning."

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"Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin."

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"Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?"

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"Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there?"

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"The eye is not satisfied with seeing."

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"There is no new thing under the sun."

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"He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow."

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"Heap coals of fire upon his head."

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"We all do fade as a leaf."

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"God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions."

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"Terrible as an army with banners."

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"Let thy words be few."

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"In that day a man shall cast his idols . . . to the moles and to the bats."

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"Be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves."

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"As if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel."

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"As a lodge in a garden of cucumbers."

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"He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent."

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"The sleep of a labouring man is sweet."

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"He shall be buried with the burial of an ass."

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"In that day seven women shall take hold of one man."

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"The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few."

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"Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him."

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"Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book."

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"Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink."

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"Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it."

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"Take therefore no thought for the morrow; for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof."

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"Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man."

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"Ye have heard that it have been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy."

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"In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand."

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"As the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of a fool."

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"Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming."

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"Thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed."

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"The grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets."

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"A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver."

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"Neither cast ye your pearls before swine."

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"The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint."

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"Multitudes in the valley of decision."

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"Nicanor lay dead in his harness."

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"As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come."

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"He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith."

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