The Project Gutenberg E-text of Arabian Wisdom
by John Wortabet
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About this eBook
- Author
- Wortabet, John, 1827-1908
- Title
- Arabian Wisdom: Selections and Translations from the Arabic
- Credits
- Produced by Al Haines
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PN: Language and Literatures: Literature: General, Criticism, Collections
- Subject
- Arabic literature -- Translations into English
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 33109
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33109
- Release Date
- July 7, 2010
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.ARABIAN WISDOM — SELECTIONS AND TRANSLATIONS FROM THE ARABIC — BY JOHN WORTABET, M.D. — LONDON JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET 1916 — TO MY CHILDREN
- 2.CONTENTS — INTRODUCTION THE FIRST CHAPTER OF THE KORAN REPENTANCE A SINNER'S CRY UNTO GOD FORGIVING OTHERS FORBEARANCE HUMILITY TRUE NOBILITY SELF-RESPECT CHARACTER BENEVOLENCE GENEROSITY GRATITUDE RECOMPENSE FLAUNTING KINDNESS KNOWLEDGE SPECULATIVE STUDIES THOUGHTS, DOUBTS WISDOM IGNORANCE, FOLLY CONSULTATION SPEAKING, WRITING, BOOKS SILENCE TRUTHFULNESS TRUTHFULNESS TO PROMISES TRUTHFULNESS TO SECRETS DECEIT EXERTION OPPORTUNITIES ECONOMY VICISSITUDES OF FORTUNE PATIENCE CONTENTMENT CHEERFULNESS WAR ANGER HATRED, MALICE MURDER ENVY RASHNESS LAZINESS AVARICE COMPLAINT, BLAME MARRIAGE CHILDREN FILIAL DUTY BROTHERS FRIENDS NEIGHBOURS SALUTATION LOVE OF COUNTRY AND HOME TRAVELLING HEALTH YOUTH AND OLD AGE DEATH APPENDIX — EDITORIAL NOTE — INTRODUCTION — THE FIRST CHAPTER OF THE KORAN — REPENTANCE, AND GOD'S FORGIVING MERCY — A SINNER'S CRY UNTO GOD[ 2 ] — FORGIVING OTHERS — CLEMENCY, FORBEARANCE, AND GENTLENESS — HUMILITY — TRUE NOBILITY — SELF-RESPECT, AND THE SENSE OF SHAME — CHARACTER — BENEVOLENCE — GENEROSITY — GRATITUDE — RECOMPENSE — FLAUNTING KINDNESS — KNOWLEDGE — SPECULATIVE STUDIES — THOUGHTS, DOUBTS — WISDOM, PRUDENCE, EXPERIENCE — IGNORANCE, FOLLY — CONSULTATION — SPEAKING, WRITING, BOOKS — SILENCE, GUARDED SPEECH — TRUTHFULNESS — TRUTHFULNESS TO PROMISES — TRUTHFULNESS TO SECRETS — DECEIT — EXERTION, PERSEVERANCE, SUCCESS — OPPORTUNITIES — ECONOMY — VICISSITUDES OF FORTUNE — PATIENCE — CONTENTMENT — CHEERFULNESS — WAR — ANGER — HATRED, MALICE — MURDER — ENVY — RASHNESS — LAZINESS — AVARICE, STINGINESS, GREED — COMPLAINT, BLAME — MARRIAGE — CHILDREN — FILIAL DUTY — BROTHERS, RELATIONS — FRIENDS, COMPANIONS — NEIGHBOURS — SALUTATION, VISITING — LOVE OF COUNTRY AND HOME — TRAVELLING — HEALTH — YOUTH AND OLD AGE — DEATH — APPENDIX — WHAT IS RIGHTEOUSNESS? — THE EXPERIENCES OF AN OLD MAN — EIGHT MEN WHO DESERVE TO BE SLAPPED ON THE FACE — FORBEARANCE — TRUTHFULNESS TO TRUST — TRUTHFULNESS TO PLEDGE — A THANKFUL OLD MAN — THE THREE SORTS OF HAPPY MEN — CYNICAL VIEWS OF LIFE — MISCELLANEOUS PROVERBS
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