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r should execute the message. A vessel used for holy purposes should not be put to uses less sacred. Ornament thyself first, then magnify others. Two pieces of coin in one bag make more noise than a hundred. Man sees the mote in his neighbor's eye, but knows not of the beam in his own. The rivalry of scholars advances science. If thou tellest thy secret to three persons, ten know of it. When love is intense both find room enough upon one board of the bench; afterward they may find themselves cramped in a space of sixty cubits. When wine enters the head the secret flies out. When a liar speaks the truth he finds his punishment in the general disbelief. Sorrow for those who disappear never to be found. The officer of the king is also a recipient of honors. He who studies cannot follow a commercial life; neither can the merchant devote his time to study. There is no occasion to light thy lamp at noontide. If thy friends agree in calling thee an ass, go and get a halter around thee. At the gate of abundance there are many brothers and friends; at the gate of misery there is neither brother not friend. The consciousness of God's presence is the first principle of religion. A man's home means his wife. He who divorces his wife is hated before God. If thy wife is small, bend down to take her counsel. The daughter is as the mother was. Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. What the child says out of doors he has learned indoors. This world is an ante-chamber to the next. The just of all nations have a portion in the future reward. Every nation has its special guardian angel, its horoscopes, its ruling planets and stars. But there is no planet for Israel. Israel shall look but to God. There is no mediator between those who are called His children and their Father which is in heaven. From the very spoon that the carver carved, he has to swallow hot mustard. The laborer is allowed to shorten his prayers. He who teaches his son to trade is as if he taught him to steal. The laborer at his work need not rise before the greatest doctor. Life is a passing shadow, says the Scripture. Is it the shadow of a tower or a tree? A shadow which prevails for a while? No. It is the shadow of a bird in its flight--away flies the bird, and there is neither bird nor shadow. Man's passions at first are like a cobweb's thread, at last
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