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Էջ 90 - I have neither seen your camel nor your jewels," repeated the dervise. On this they seized his person, and forthwith hurried him before the Cadi, where, on the strictest search, nothing could be found upon him, nor could any evidence whatever be adduced to convict him, either of falsehood or of theft.
Էջ 40 - In the obscurity of retirement, amid the squalid poverty and revolting privations of a cottage, it has often been my lot to witness scenes of magnanimity and self-denial as much beyond the belief as the practice of the great...
Էջ 90 - You have lost a camel," said he to the merchants ; "indeed we have," they replied ; " was he not blind in his right eye, and lame in his left leg ?" said the dervise ; " he was," replied the merchants : " had he not lost a front tooth?
Էջ 218 - That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it than those who have inherited one.
Էջ 160 - No two things differ more than hurry and despatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, despatch of a strong one.
Էջ 36 - Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period or other when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other, it is our own.
Էջ 90 - You have lost a camel," said he, to the merchants. " Indeed we have," they replied, "Was he not blind in his right eye, and lame in his left leg ?" said the dervise. " He was,
Էջ 98 - ... that he attributed what little he knew, to the not having been ashamed to ask for information; and to the rule he had laid down, of conversing with all descriptions of men, on those topics chiefly that formed their own peculiar professions or pursuits.
Էջ xv - Our riches may be taken from us by misfortune, our reputation by malice, our spirits by calamity, our health by disease, our friends by death. But our actions must follow us beyond the grave ; with respect to them alone, we cannot say that we shall carry nothing with us when we die, neither that we shall go naked out of the world.
Էջ 91 - I concluded that the animal had lost one tooth, because, wherever it had grazed, a small tuft of herbage was left uninjured in the centre of its bite.