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The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Ecclesiastes (ch. IX, v. 11)
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Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with
all thy getting get understanding.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Proverbs (ch. IV, v. 7)
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Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Proverbs (ch. IX, v. 17)
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For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her
mouth is smoother than oil:
But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Proverbs (ch. V, v. 3-5)
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Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Proverbs (ch. VI, v. 27)
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Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Proverbs (ch. VI, v. 6)
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How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? When wilt thou arise out
of thy sleep?
Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the
hands to sleep:
So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth,
and thy want as an armed man.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Proverbs (ch. VI, v. 9-11)
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Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us
solace ourselves with loves.
For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Proverbs (ch. VII, v. 18-19)
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He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter,
or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;
Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the
snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Proverbs (ch. VII, v. 22)
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The destruction of the poor is their poverty.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Proverbs (ch. X, v. 15)
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He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Proverbs (ch. XI, v. 15)
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As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which
is without discretion.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Proverbs (ch. XI, v. 22)
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A righteous man regardeth the life of this beast: but the tender
mercies of the wicked are cruel.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Proverbs (ch. XII, v. 10)
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Lying lips are abomination to the Lord.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Proverbs (ch. XII, v. 22)
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A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Proverbs (ch. XII, v. 4)
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Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh,
it is a tree of life.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Proverbs (ch. XIII, v. 12)
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The way of transgressors is hard.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Proverbs (ch. XIII, v. 15)
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The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Proverbs (ch. XIII, v. 19)
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He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him
chasteneth him betimes.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Proverbs (ch. XIII, v. 24)
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Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Proverbs (ch. XIV, v. 13)
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In all labour there is profit.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Proverbs (ch. XIV, v. 23)
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Righteousness exalteth a nation.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Proverbs (ch. XIV, v. 34)
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Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven
pillars.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Proverbs (ch. XIX, v. 1)
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A soft answer turneth away wrath.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Proverbs (ch. XV, v. 1)
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A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of
the heart the spirit is broken.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Proverbs (ch. XV, v. 13)
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Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and
hatred therewith.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Proverbs (ch. XV, v. 17)
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A word spoken in due season, how good is it!
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Proverbs (ch. XV, v. 23)
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Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a
fall.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Proverbs (ch. XVI, v. 18)
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He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that
ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Proverbs (ch. XVI, v. 32)
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A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for
adversity.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Proverbs (ch. XVII, v. 17)
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A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit
drieth the bones.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Proverbs (ch. XVII, v. 22)
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He that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Proverbs (ch. XVII, v. 9)
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A wounded spirit who can bear?
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Proverbs (ch. XVIII, v. 14)
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There is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Proverbs (ch. XVIII, v. 24)
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Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whoever is
deceived thereby is not wise.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Proverbs (ch. XX, v. 1)
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Even a child is known by his doings.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Proverbs (ch. XX, v. 11)
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The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made even both
of them.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Proverbs (ch. XX, v. 12)
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It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone
his way, then he boasteth.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Proverbs (ch. XX, v. 14)
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Every fool will be meddling.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Proverbs (ch. XX, v. 3)
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It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a
brawling woman in a wide house.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Proverbs (ch. XXI, v. 9)
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A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving
favour rather than silver and gold.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Proverbs (ch. XXII, v. 1)
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Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he
will not depart from it.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Proverbs (ch. XXII, v. 6)
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Look not upon the wine when it is read, when it giveth his colour
in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.
At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Proverbs (ch. XXIII, v. 31)
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A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till
afterwards.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Proverbs (ch. XXIX, v. 11)
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Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth
the law, happy is he.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Proverbs (ch. XXIX, v. 18)
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A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Proverbs (ch. XXV, v. 11)
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Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind
without rain.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Proverbs (ch. XXV, v. 14)
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Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour's house; lest he be weary of
thee, and so hate thee.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Proverbs (ch. XXV, v. 17)
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If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be
thirsty, give him water to drink.
For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord
shall reward thee.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Proverbs (ch. XXV, v. 21-22)
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As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far
country.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Proverbs (ch. XXV, v. 25)
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