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For in the multitude of dreams are vanities; so with many words: but fear God.

The sleep of the labourer is sweet, whether he have eaten little or much; but the fulness of the rich doth not suffer him to sleep.

one to whom God giveth riches, wealth, and honour, and he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this is vanity, and a sore evil.

If a man beget a hundred [sons], and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, but his soul be not filled with good, and also he have no burial, I say an untimely birth is better than he.

The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools in the house of mirth.

For wisdom is a defence [as] money is a defence; but the excellency of knowledge is, [that] wisdom maketh them that possess it to live.

All this have I tried by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.

and I found more bitter than death the woman whose heart is nets and snares, [and] whose hands are bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be caught by her.

which my soul yet seeketh, and I have not found: one man among a thousand have I found, but a woman among all those have I not found.

Only see this which I have found: that God made man upright, but they have sought out many devices.

but it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong [his] days as a shadow, because he feareth not before God.

For the living know that they shall die; but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward, for the memory of them is forgotten.

I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to the intelligent, nor yet favour to men of knowledge; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

and there was found in it a poor wise man, who by his wisdom delivered the city; but no man remembered that poor man.

Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength; but the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.

Wisdom is better than weapons of war; but one sinner destroyeth much good.

The heart of a wise [man] is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left.

folly is set in great dignities, but the rich sit in a low place.

If the iron be blunt, and one do not whet the edge, then must he apply more strength; but wisdom is profitable to give success.

The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool swallow up himself.