Lean in and listen to the words of the wise. We've written you thirty sayings.
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Thirty sayings. Sit down.
The teachers and elders whose sayings sit in the middle of Proverbs, from 22:17 to the end of chapter 24: “the words of the wise”. We don’t give our names. Lean in and listen: thirty sayings, and a few more after that.
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Don't wear yourself out getting rich. Blink, and your money's grown wings and flown off like an eagle.
The long version. Who's got the misery? Who's got the fights, the complaining, the bruises nobody can explain, the bloodshot eyes? The ones who linger over wine. And the next morning they're saying someone hit them and they didn't even feel it, and the moment they're awake they're off to find another drink.
Solomon@solomonWine makes a fool of you. Beer starts fights. Anyone who gets carried away by them isn't wise.A good person falls seven times and gets back up.
Don't celebrate when your enemy falls.
Walked past a lazy man's field. Thorns everywhere. Thistles all over it. The stone wall falling down. I looked, and I learned something.
Solomon@solomonSure. A bit more sleep, a bit more napping, a bit more lying there with your arms folded, and poverty turns up like a robber.