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Againe, if two lye together, then they haue heate; but howe can one be warme alone?

For in the multitude of dreames and many words, there are also diuers vanities: but feare thou God.

The sleepe of a labouring man is sweete, whether he eate little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleepe.

But those riches perish by euill trauell; and he begetteth a sonne, and there is nothing in his hand.

A man to whom God hath giuen riches, wealth and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soule of all that he desireth, yet God giueth him not power to eate thereof, but a stranger eateth it: This is vanitie, and it is an euill disease.

The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning: but the heart of fooles is in the house of mirth.

For wisedome is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellencie of knowledge is, that wisedome giueth life to them that haue it.

In the day of prosperitie be ioyfull, but in the day of aduersitie consider: God also hath set the one ouer against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.

All this haue I prooued by wisedome: I said, I will be wise, but it was farre from me.

And I finde more bitter then death, the woman whose heart is snares & nets, and her handes as bands: who so pleaseth God, shall escape from her, but the sinner shall be taken by her.

Which yet my soule seeketh, but I finde not: one man among a thousand haue I found, but a woman among all those haue I not found.

Loe, this onely haue I found, that God hath made man vpright: but they haue sought out many inuentions.

But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall hee prolong his dayes which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.

For the liuing know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither haue they any more a reward, for the memorie of them is forgotten.

I returned, and saw vnder the Sunne, That the race is not to the swift, nor the battell to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of vnderstanding, nor yet fauour to men of skil; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

Wisedome is better then weapons of warre: but one sinner destroyeth much good.

A wise mans heart is at his right hand: but a fooles heart at his left.

If the yron be blunt, and he doe not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisedome is profitable to direct.

The words of a wise mans mouth are gratious: but the lips of a foole will swallow vp himselfe.

A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things.