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Jacob said unto Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years," using the word pilgrimage in reference to life on earth, which the pious regard as a temporary sojourn in alien lands.

— Louis Ginzberg Legends of the Jews (1909)

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Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

Legends of the Jews (1909)

Sun and Moon have always to be driven to duty, never doing it voluntarily because they do not wish to look upon the sins of man upon earth.

Legends of the Jews (1909)

It coucheth at the door of thy heart, yet it depends upon thee whether thou shalt be master over it, or it shall be master over thee.

Legends of the Jews (1909)

Where there is no trouble, nor grief, nor sighing, but peace and rejoicing and life unending

Legends of the Jews (1909)

The wicked experience sorrow after joy; the pious must suffer first, and then they are happy, for all's well that ends well, and God permits the pious to spend the last years of their lives in felicity.

Legends of the Jews (1909)

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