 | John Strang - Cemeteries - 1831 - 104 pages
...and jokes" must ere while for ever cease, and are led to reflect that they too must die ; and as " by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better," the "religious man instructed on the narrowness of the boundary which separates him from those who were... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1832 - 664 pages
...absurd ? Yet are these sentiments unquestionably true, as are those also which my text records : " The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth." It shall be my endeavour, I. To confirm these different positions — It is not Solomon's intention... | |
 | William Jay - Calendars - 1832 - 704 pages
...says, " Familiar thoughts will smooth the road to death :" and the royal preacher tells us, "sorrow is better than laughter ; for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better. It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go the house of feasting : for that is the end... | |
 | Francis Bragge - Theology - 1833 - 284 pages
...and therefore he says, Sorrow is better than laughter: — for by it the heart is made better ; and the heart of the wise is in the house of' mourning...the heart of fools is in the house of mirth*. And elsewhere, it is the rod that gives wisdom0, because it is attended with sorrow, which makes people... | |
 | William Jay - Calendars - 1833 - 722 pages
...Young says, "Familiar thoughts will smooth the road to death . and the royal preacher tells us, "sorrow is better than laughter ; for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is maje belter. It is better to go to the house of mourning than to ño the house of feasting : for that... | |
 | Bible - 2003 - 322 pages
...6 The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear rilled with hearing. Ecclesiastes 1:8. 7 Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the...The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning. Ecclesiastes 7:3-4. 8 Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow... | |
 | Carol J. Singley - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 346 pages
...between person and thing (213). The novel's title encodes this anxiety. Taken from Eccelsiastes 7.4 — "The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth" (New Oxford Annotated Bible) — the title poses a crucial choice: is the American "house" to be the... | |
 | Rosemary Mahoney - Religion - 2004 - 422 pages
...running? It was doubly impossible to imagine him laughing. I didn't agree with the Solomonic view that "the heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth" (Ecclesiastes 7:4). Humor seemed to me the height of wisdom, and it disappointed me that there was... | |
 | Gary Thomas - Religion - 2003 - 260 pages
...should take this to heart. Sorrow is better than laughter, because a sad face is good for the heart. The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of pleasure. ECCLESIASTES 7:2—4 I don't want to take this verse out of context. Clearly, it's talking... | |
 | Art E. Christmas - Bereavement - 2003 - 106 pages
...writer of Ecclesiastes says, "Sorrow is better than laughter, because a sad face is good for the heart. The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of pleasure." (Ecclesiastes 7:3,4) Think about that for a moment. How in the world could sorrow be better... | |
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It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart. Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.... 
