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Sirach 37:14
At times a person’s intuition keeps them informed better than seven sentries sitting high up on a lookout.
Nor with him that worketh by the year of the finishing of the year, nor with an idle servant of much business: give no heed to these in any matter of counsel.
Sometimes your own intuition can tell you more than seven watchmen on a high tower.
The heart can reveal your situation better than seven sentinels on a tower.
Your own conscience will sometimes give you a more accurate warning than seven watchmen stationed on a high tower.
For our own mind sometimes keeps us better informed than seven sentinels sitting high on a watch-tower.
For our own mind sometimes keeps us better informed than seven sentinels sitting high on a watch-tower.
For our own mind sometimes keeps us better informed than seven sentinels sitting high on a watchtower.
For our own mind sometimes keeps us better informed than seven sentinels sitting high on a watchtower.
For a man’s soul sometimes keeps him better informed than seven watchmen sitting high on a watchtower.
For a man’s soul sometimes keeps him better informed than seven watchmen sitting high on a watchtower.
The soul of an holy man telleth out truths sometime; more than seven beholders [or seven lookers about] sitting on high for to behold.
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