Value of Reputation and Character

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¶ A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold.

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¶ The rich and poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them all.

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¶ A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.

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¶ By humility and the fear of the LORD are riches, and honour, and life.

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¶ Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them.

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¶ Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

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¶ The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.

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¶ He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.

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¶ He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor.

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¶ Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.

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¶ He that loveth pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend.

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¶ The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge, and he overthroweth the words of the transgressor.

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¶ The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.

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¶ The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.

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¶ Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

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¶ He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.