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A man of understanding is faithful to the law of God, and the law is faithful to him.
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He that cleareth up a question, shall prepare what to say, and so having prayed he shall be heard, and shall keep discipline, and then he shall answer.
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The heart of a fool is as a wheel of a cart: and his thoughts are like a rolling axletree.
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A friend that is a mocker, is like a stallion horse: he neigheth under every one that sitteth upon him.
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Why doth one day excel another, and one light another, and one year another year, when all come of the sun?
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By the knowledge of the Lord they were distinguished, the sun being made, and keeping his commandment.
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And he ordered the seasons, and holidays of them, and in them they celebrated festivals at an hour.
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Some of them God made high and great days, and some of them he put in the number of ordinary days. And all men are from the ground, and out of the earth, from whence Adam was created.
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With much knowledge the Lord hath divided them and diversified their ways.
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Some of them hath he blessed, and exalted: and some of them hath he sanctified, and set near himself: and some of them hath he cursed and brought low, end turned them from their station.
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As the potter's clay is in his hand, to fashion and order it: