| 1871 - 902 páginas
...three. It was so venerated by the Pythagoreans that they swore by it. Omar, the second caliph, said : " Four things come not back — the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, the neglected opportunity," In the sacred Scriptures there are four rivers of Paradise, and four artificial... | |
| Divine decree - 1878 - 506 páginas
...commission, His promises, His Spirit, Himself. Oh, let us not surrender ! It was said by a Moslem, " Four things come not back : the spoken word, the sped...arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity." Let the weighty truths be now digested by the Christian. We cannot disguise the fact that there are... | |
| 1879 - 200 páginas
...destruction. Speak, act, and lice the exact truth always, and let truth go hand-in-hand with love. FOUR things come not back : the spoken word, the sped...arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity. THE world judges by actions ; God by the motives. For The Dayspring. KITTY'S FIRST COMPOSITION. BY... | |
| D'Aubigné White - 1879 - 328 páginas
...you from a mistake you could never retrieve. There is an old Arab proverb, Gladys, which says, " that four things come not back :" the spoken word — the sped arrow — the past life — the neglected opportunity. Do not then speak that word, which once spoken can never come back to... | |
| 1889 - 514 páginas
...prosperity always to shine on us we should soon forget our Father's house — our inheritance above. Four things come not back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, the neglected opportunity. THE LINOTYPE. WHEN people talk about the marvels of printing and the changes... | |
| Thomas Louis Haines, Levi W. Yaggy - 1881 - 670 páginas
...their little hands with sand, then let the grains fall through one by one, till they are all gone. Four things come not back; the spoken word; the sped...arrow; the past life; and the neglected opportunity. Opportunity has hair in front, behind she is bald; if you seize her by the forelock you may hold her,... | |
| Washington Irving - 1881 - 896 páginas
...Islam. He had shrewd maxims on which he squared his conduct, of which the following is a specimen. "Foui things come not back : the spoken word ; the sped...arrow ; the past life, and the neglected opportunity." During his reign mosques were erected without number for the instruction and devotion of the faithful,... | |
| Washington Irving - 1882 - 522 páginas
...Islam. He had shrewd maxims on which he squared his conduct, of which the following is a specimen. " Four things come not back : the spoken word ; the...arrow ; the past life, and the neglected opportunity." During his reign mosques were erected without number for the instruction and devotion of the faithful,... | |
| 1884 - 812 páginas
...self-denial; and his discourse was full of pithy maxims. He was wont to say, ' Four things come лоь back — The spoken word; the sped arrow; the past life; and the neglected opportunity.' It was proposed in the assembly of the Arab Sheikhs to give him the title of 'Caliph of the Caliph... | |
| Harry John Wilmot- Buxton - 1885 - 270 páginas
...that it was too late to repair them. " Four things," says the Eastern sage, " come not back again : the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity." My brothers, what fate can be more awful than that of having to look back upon a wasted life through... | |
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