Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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Ecclesiastes ii. 14.

To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.

Ecclesiastes iii. 1.

A threefold cord is not quickly broken.

Ecclesiastes iv. 12.

Let thy words be few.

Ecclesiastes v. 2.

Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.

Ecclesiastes v. 5.

The sleep of a labouring man is sweet.