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Chapter 18 1. Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom.
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Chapter 18 1. Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom.
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Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom.
Proverbs 18. 1999
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And herein the heart knoweth its own bitterness; a stranger intermeddleth not with it: none knows the groaning and labouring of a soul convinced of such spiritual decays, but he alone in whom they are.
Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ 1616-1683 1965
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But neither this materialistic world, nor all the fools that inhabit it, can ever really rob the Artist of the joy -- in which "no stranger intermeddleth" -- of the Realm of fancy which is his own domain, inherited by right of his genius.
The Idler Magazine, Vol III. May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Various
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It will be like having a separate language for each person, so that "friend communeth with friend, and a stranger intermeddleth not --" and which none but that one person can understand.
Stories of Inventors The Adventures of Inventors and Engineers Russell Doubleday 1910
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The heart knows its own Bitterness, and a stranger intermeddleth not with its Joy.
The Pilgrims Progress, in the Similitude of a Dream; The Second Part. Paras. 300-399 1909
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"'The heart knoweth its own bitterness and a stranger intermeddleth not with its joy.'"
The Major Ralph Connor 1898
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"The heart knoweth its own bitterness, and a stranger intermeddleth not with its joy;" and the joy and the bitterness of creative work are not intermeddled with as much as one might suppose by the outside weather of praise or non-comprehension, if the artist is great enough to keep his private self-respect.
Memories of Hawthorne Rose Hawthorne Lathrop 1888
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Through desire ... seeketh -- that is, seeks selfish gratification. intermeddleth ... wisdom -- or, "rushes on" (Pr 17: 14) against all wisdom, or what is valuable (Pr 2: 7).
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