I, wisdom, live with prudence, and I attain knowledge and discretion. The fear of the LORD is hatred of evil. Pride and arrogance ...and the way of evil and perverted speech I hate. I have good advice and sound wisdom; I have insight, I have strength. By me kings reign, and rulers decree what is just; by me rulers rule, and nobles, all who govern rightly. I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently find me. Riches and honor are with me, enduring wealth and prosperity. My fruit is better than gold, even fine gold, and my yield than choice silver. I walk in the way of righteousness, along the paths of justice, endowing with wealth those who love me, and filling their treasuries. The LORD created me at the beginning of his work, the first of his acts of long ago.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The welcome house of him my dearest guest. Where ever, ever stay, and go not thence,... Till natures sad decree shall call thee hence; Flesh of thy flesh, bone of thy bone, I here, thou there, yet both but one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is not an arbitrary "decree of God," but in the nature of man, that a veil shuts down on the facts of to-morrow; for the soul w...ill not have us read any other cipher than that of cause and effect. By this veil, which curtains events, it instructs the children of men to live in to-day.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too... often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This is my decree. The bodies of those who died well and bravely by my side shall be delivered to the City of the Dead. Fine linen... and armor shall be their burial garments. They shall rest in tombs of stone, and, for their comfort in the second life, they shall have ample treasure. To each man, three measures of gold and nine measures of silver; one vessel each of onyx and alabaster; food and wine in plenty. All this and all honor shall each man enjoy in the second life. There we shall meet again, to stand side by side and serve. 'Til then, farewell. The gods of Egypt have spoken.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This day I have sent couriers to every part of our country, to every city and village. They carry this decree. That I have set a t...ask for Egypt, which in any other land would be impossible on the desert sands. You will raise a pyramid, a structure greater than any in the world. This pyramid shall be resting place for the second life. Each man has a covenant with me to work as man has not yet worked in all time. And as the living God of Egypt, I promise you that each man by his labor shall secure for himself a place in the life to come.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sweet Cupid's shafts, like destiny, Doth causeless good or ill decree.... Desert is born out of his bow, Reward upon his wing doth go. What fools are they that have not known That Love likes no laws but his own!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[Necessity is] the sum of all things, which being now existent, conduce and concur to the production of that action hereafter, whe...reof if any one thing now were wanting, the effect could not be produced. This concourse of causes, whereof every one is determined to be such as it is by a like concourse of former causes, may well be called (in respect they were all set and ordered by the eternal causes of all things, God Almighty) the decree of God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The laws of God, the laws of man, He may keep that will and can;... Not I: let God and man decree Laws for themselves and not for me;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »