Better is the end of a thing than the beginning of it. The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart, for God has already accepted thy works.

I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill, but time and chance happens t

Revile not the king, no, not in thy thought, and revile not the rich in thy bedchamber. For a bird of the heavens shall carry the voice, and that which has wings shall tell the matter.

Cast thy bread upon the waters, for thou shall find it after many days.

and the doors shall be shut in the street, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of a bird, and all the daughters of music shall be brought low,