2. It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.
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4. The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.
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8. Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
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10. Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this.
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12. For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.
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14. In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.
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15. All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness.
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18. It is good that thou shouldest take hold of this; yea, also from this withdraw not thine hand: for he that feareth God shall come forth of them all.
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25. I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:
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26. And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
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28. Which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.
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29. Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
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