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The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all.
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Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also is vanity.
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For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise man? as the fool.
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And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity.
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The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.
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Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.
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Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.
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For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by multitude of words.
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When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed.
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For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?
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The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.
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It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.
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For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.
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Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
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Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?
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I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:
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The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools.
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A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left.
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Yea also, when he that is a fool walketh by the way, his wisdom faileth him, and he saith to every one that he is a fool.
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The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
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The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness: and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.
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A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?
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The labour of the foolish wearieth every one of them, because he knoweth not how to go to the city.