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- A Good name is rather to be chosen then great riches, and louing fauour rather then siluer & golde.
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- The rich and poore meet together: the Lord is the maker of them all.
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- A prudent man foreseeth the euill, and hideth himselfe: but the simple passe on, and are punished.
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- By humilitie and the feare of the Lord, are riches, and honour, and life.
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- Thornes and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doeth keepe his soule, shalbe farre from them.
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- Traine vp a childe in the way he should goe: and when he is olde, hee will not depart from it.
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- The rich ruleth ouer the poore, and the borrower is seruant to the lender.
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- Hee that soweth iniquitie, shall reape vanitie: and the rodde of his anger shall faile.
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- Hee that hath a bountifull eye, shall bee blessed: for hee giueth of his bread to the poore.
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- Cast out the scorner, and contention shall goe out;
yea strife, and reproch shall cease.
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- He that loueth purenesse of heart, for the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend.
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- The eyes of the Lord preserue knowledge, and he ouerthroweth the words of the transgressour.
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- The slothfull man sayth, There is a lyon without, I shall be slaine in the streetes.
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- The mouth of strange women is a deepe pit: he that is abhorred of the Lord shall fall therein.
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- Foolishnesse is bound in the heart of a child: but the rod of correction shal driue it farre from him.
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- Hee that oppresseth the poore to increase his riches, and he that giueth to the rich, shall surely come to want.
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- Bow downe thine eare, and heare the words of the wise, and apply thine heart vnto my knowledge.
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- For it is a pleasant thing, if thou keepe them within thee;
they shall withall be fitted in thy lippes.
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- That thy trust may bee in the Lord, I haue made knowen to thee this day, euen to thee.
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- Haue not I written to thee excellent things in counsailes and knowledge:
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- That I might make thee knowe the certainty of the words of truth;
that thou mightest answere the words of trueth to them that send vnto thee?
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- Rob not the poore because he is poore, neither oppresse the afflicted in the gate.
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- For the Lord will plead their cause, and spoile the soule of those that spoiled them.
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- Make no friendship with an angrie man: and with a furious man thou shalt not goe;
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- Lest thou learne his wayes, and get a snare to thy soule.
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- Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.
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- If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from vnder thee?
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- Remoue not the ancient land marke, which thy fathers haue set.
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- Seest thou a man diligent in his businesse?
hee shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before meane men.
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