“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…”
Didymus the Blind, 4th c. — COMMENTARY ON ECCLESIASTES 204:22
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8Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
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6For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.
7Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart.
— Ecclesiastes 7:8 —
9Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
10Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this.