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Unto you therefore, O kings, do I speak, that ye may learn wisdom and not fall away.
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For they that keep holiness holily shall be judged holy; and they that have learned such things shall find what to answer.
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Therefore set your affection upon my words; desire them, and ye shall be instructed.
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Wisdom is glorious and never fadeth away; yea, she is easily seen by them that love her, and found by such as seek her.
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She precedeth them that desire her, in making herself first known unto them.
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Whoso seeketh her early shall have no great travail; for he shall find her sitting at his doors.
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To think therefore upon her is perfection of wisdom; and whoso watcheth for her shall quickly be without care.
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For she goeth about seeking such as are worthy of her, showeth herself favorably unto them in the ways, and meeteth them in every thought.
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For the very true beginning of her is the desire for discipline, and the care of discipline is love.
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And love is the keeping of her laws, and the giving heed unto her laws is the assurance of incorruption;
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and incorruption maketh us near unto God.