In old English there is a saying that goes:
"'Tis that dead fly in the ointment of the Apothecary."
We know it more as 'the fly in the ointment', which refers to a small glitch in an otherwise good plan.
Reading through Ecclesiastes 10, we note that this idiom has it's origins in the time of Solomon. I am struck by how ancient wisdom has been carried into our modern era and how we can still understand the concepts of people like Solomon.
"As dead flies give perfume a bad smell,
so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor.
2 The heart of the wise inclines to the right,
but the heart of the fool to the left.
3 Even as fools walk along the road,
they lack sense and show everyone how stupid they are." - Ecclesiastes 10:1-3
Some thoughts are timeless.
“It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words, "And this too, shall pass away." - Abraham Lincoln
Living in Grace
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