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Now all good things came to me together with her, and innumerable riches through her hands,
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And I rejoiced in all these: for this wisdom went before me, and I knew not that she was the mother of them all.
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Which I have learned without guile, and communicate without envy, and her riches I hide not.
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For she is an infinite treasure to men! which they that use, become the friends of God, being commended for the gift of discipline.
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And God hath given to me to speak as I would, and to conceive thoughts worthy of those things that are given me: because he is the guide of wisdom, and the director of the wise:
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For in his hand are both we, and our words, and all wisdom, and the knowledge and skill of works.
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For he hath given me the true knowledge of the things that are: to know the disposition of the whole world, and the virtues of the elements,
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The beginning, and ending, and midst of the times, the alterations of their courses, and the changes of seasons,
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The revolutions of the year, and the dispositions of the stars,
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The natures of living creatures, and rage of wild beasts, the force of winds, and reasonings of men, the diversities of plants, and the virtues of roots,
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And all such things as are hid and not foreseen, I have learned: for wisdom, which is the worker of all things, taught me.