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There is a sound of abundance of rain.

1st Kings 18:41

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (1st Kings 18:41).

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Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.

God

Job 38:4

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Job 38:4).

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Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.

Job

Job 42:6

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Job 42:6).

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So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning.

Job 42:12

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Is there no balm in Gilead?

Jeremiah 8:22

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Jeremiah 8:22).

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I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.

Job

Job 40:4

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Job 40:4).

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Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down; he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

Job

Job 14:1-2 KJV

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Job 14:1-2).

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If you find a man who points out faults and who reproves, follow such a wise person as you would a guide to hidden treasure.

Gautama Buddha

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Dhammapada. c. 550 BC, v. 76.

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The Dhammapada, edited and translated by Valerie Roebuck. Penguin Classics, 2010, v. 76.

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The stars about the lovely moon hide their shining forms when it lights up the earth at its fullest.

Sappho

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Sappho. Sappho to the Moon. c. 570 BCE.

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Sappho. Quoted in The Greek Anthology and Other Ancient Greek Epigrams, edited by Peter Jay. Oxford University Press, 1973.

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King Solomon loved many strange women.

1st Kings 11:1

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (1st Kings 11:1).

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As is the mother, so is her daughter.

Ezekiel 16:44

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Ezekiel 16:44).

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Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?

Job

Job 2:10

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Job 2:10).

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Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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Heraclitus. Fragments. 5th century BC, DK B40.

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Heraclitus. Fragments, translated by Brooks Haxton. Penguin Classics, 2003.

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Far be it from God, that he should do wickedness; and from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.

Job 34:10

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Can these bones live?

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Ezekiel 37:3

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Ezekiel 37:3).

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Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.

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Jeremiah 31:31

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The Holy Bible, New King James Version. Thomas Nelson, 1982. (Jeremiah 31:31).

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Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?

Jeremiah 13:23

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Jeremiah 13:23).

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Adopt the character of the twisting octopus, which takes on the appearance of the nearby rock. Now follow in this direction, now turn a different hue.

Theognis of Megara

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Theognis. Elegies. c. 541 BC.

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Theognis. "Elegies." Hesiod and Theognis: Theogony, Works and Days, and Elegies, translated by Dorothea Wender. Penguin Classics, 1976.

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The best of all things for earthly men is not to be born and not to see the beams of the bright sun; but if born, then as quickly as possible to pass the gates of Hades, and to lie deep buried.

Theognis of Megara

Elegies

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Theognis. Elegies. c. 541 BC.

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Theognis. "Elegies." Hesiod and Theognis: Theogony, Works and Days, and Elegies, translated by Dorothea Wender. Penguin Classics, 1976.