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For all men have one entrance into life, and the like going out.
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Wherefore I prayed, and understanding was given me: I called upon God, and the spirit of wisdom came to me.
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I preferred her before sceptres and thrones, and esteemed riches nothing in comparison of her.
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Neither compared I unto her any precious stone, because all gold in respect of her is as a little sand, and silver shall be counted as clay before her.
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I loved her above health and beauty, and chose to have her instead of light: for the light that cometh from her never goeth out.
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All good things together came to me with her, and innumerable riches in her hands.
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And I rejoiced in them all, because wisdom goeth before them: and I knew not that she was the mother of them.
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I learned diligently, and do communicate her liberally: I do not hide her riches.
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For she is a treasure unto men that never faileth: which they that use become the friends of God, being commended for the gifts that come from learning.
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God hath granted me to speak as I would, and to conceive as is meet for the things that are given me: because it is he that leadeth unto wisdom, and directeth the wise.
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For in his hand are both we and our words; all wisdom also, and knowledge of workmanship.