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  2. Proverbs 19 - Wikipedia

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    Proverbs 19 is the nineteenth chapter of the Book of Proverbs in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. [1] [2] The book is a compilation of several wisdom literature collections, with the heading in 1:1 may be intended to regard Solomon as the traditional author of the whole book, but the dates of the individual collections are difficult to determine, and the book ...

  3. Graded numerical sequence - Wikipedia

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    A graded numerical sequence or numerical proverb, sometimes [where?] called an n/n+1 saying or numerical heightening, is a literary form employed in the Hebrew Bible.It is found especially in Proverbs, Job, and Amos, and is used to list attributes, compare items, and catalogue sins. 38 biblical examples have been identified, [1] as well as in the Book of Sirach.

  4. List of proverbial phrases - Wikipedia

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    One half of the world does not know how the other half lives; One hand washes the other; One kind word can warm three winter months; One man's meat is another man's poison; One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter; One man's trash is another man's treasure; One might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb

  5. Book of Proverbs - Wikipedia

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    The Book of Proverbs (Hebrew: מִשְלֵי, Mišlê; Greek: Παροιμίαι; Latin: Liber Proverbiorum, "Proverbs (of Solomon)") is a book in the third section (called Ketuvim) of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament traditionally ascribed to King Solomon and his students. [1]

  6. List of acts who appeared on American Bandstand - Wikipedia

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    The B'zz; The Babys; Bachman–Turner Overdrive; Badfinger; Philip Bailey; Baltimora; Scott Baio; Anita Baker; Joby Baker; LaVern Baker; Marty Balin; Bananarama; The ...

  7. Delphic maxims - Wikipedia

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    In fact, they are more likely to have simply been popular proverbs. Each maxim has a long history of interpretation, although the third of the set has received comparatively little attention. A further 147 maxims, documented by Stobaeus in the 5th century AD, were also located somewhere in the vicinity of the temple.

  8. Dying To Be Free - The Huffington Post

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    But a reforming justice system is feeding addicts into an unreformed treatment system, one that still carries vestiges of inhumane practices — and prejudices — from more than half a century ago. John Peterson got hooked on heroin in the mid-1950s, soon after returning home to Los Angeles from a stint in the Army.

  9. List of Latin phrases (B) - Wikipedia

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    Inscription above the entrance to St. Andrew's Church (New York City), based on the second half of Psalm 119:1: beati quorum via integra est: blessed are they whose way is upright: first half of Psalm 119:1, base of several musical setting such as Beati quorum via (Stanford) beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam: blessed is the man who finds wisdom