Holy Scripture
Ecclesiastes 7:8
A church father on this verse
“The end of words is more likely to be good than their beginning.… A speech is given in order to actualize something.… Oftentimes someone who teaches has with patience led someone who is not highly intelligent to learning. He does not give up after the first or second admonition but tries to heal him in every case. Suc…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
8The end of a matter is better than the beginning thereof: The patient is better than the high-minded.
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In context
6As the sound of thorns under a caldron, So is the laughter of fools: This is also vanity.
7For oppression makes a wise man mad, And destroys his noble heart.
— Ecclesiastes 7:8 —
9Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: For anger will rest in the bosom of fools.
10Say not, What has happened, That the former days were better than these? For thou dost not inquire in wisdom concerning this.