(A)A good name is better than a good ointment, and the day of [a]death, than the day that one is born.

It is better to go to the house of [b]mourning, than to go to the house of feasting, because this is the end of all men: and the living shall lay it to his heart.

Anger is better than laughter: for by a sad look the heart is made better.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 7:3 He speaketh thus after the judgment of the flesh, which thinketh death to be the end of all evils, or else, because that this corporal death is the entering into life everlasting.
  2. Ecclesiastes 7:4 Where we may see the hand of God, and learn to examine our lives.

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