All Quotes By Tag: Life-lessons
“A library is more precious than a bank.”
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“All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me. That which is far off, exceeding deep, who can find it out?”
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“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: And I find more bitter than death, the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands-”
“Your whole being is deeply troubled- personified the vision of a child’s purity, lost in the wilderness of an ever-unchanging and imperfect world.”
“Loneliness is your only companion.”
“Only dead surpasses the sufferings”
“You haven’t rewarded evil unto them who were at peace with you; nor you have delivered them that without cause is your enemy. But they want to tread down your soul upon the earth, and lay your honour in the dust.”
“The thing that had been, it is that which shall be; And that which is done is that which shall be done.”
“There is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, ‘See, this is new?’ it had been already of old time, which was before us.”
“I saw under the sun the place of judgement, …that wickedness was there; And the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there. …I said in mine heart, ‘Who shall judge the righteous and the wicked:’ for there is a time for every purpose and for every work.”
“teach your brain now .. don’t wait until life teach you !”
“You have strength born of years of grief and anger… The strength of a man denied revenge.”
“Knowledge is worth nothing, until it is put to practice.”
“My grief were thoroughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! For now it would be heavier than the sand of the desert.”
“What is my strength, that I should hope? Is my strength the strength of stone? Or is my flesh of brass? Is not my help in me.”