Book of Wise Sayings / Selected Largely from Eastern SourcesW. A. Clouston
Book of Wise Sayings / Selected Largely from Eastern Sources
W. A. Clouston
Essays
Book language: English
152 pages
A collection of wise sayings, proverbs and maxims drawn largely from Eastern sources, compiled by W. A. Clouston. It gathers brief reflections on life, patience, moderation and human conduct. It is worth listening to for its compact, varied wisdom and its invitation to quiet thought.
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BOOK OF WISE SAYINGS SELECTED LARGELY FROM EASTERN SOURCES BY W. A. CLOUSTON Author of “Popular Tales and Fictions,” “Literary Coincidences, and other Papers,” “Flowers from a Persian Garden,” etc. “Concise sentences, like darts, fly abroad and make impressions, while long discourses are tedious and not regarded.”—Bacon. “Many are the sayings of the wise, In ancient and in modern books enrolled.”— Milton. LONDON Published by HUTCHINSON & CO. AT 34 PATERNOSTER ROW 1893 PRINTED AT NIMEGUEN (HOLLAND)
BY H. C. A. THIEME OF NIMEGUEN (HOLLAND) AND TALBOT HOUSE, ARUNDEL STREET LONDON, W.C. TO FRANCIS THORNTON BARRETT, CHIEF LIBRARIAN, MITCHELL LIBRARY, GLASGOW, This Little Book, WITH FRIENDLY GREETINGS, IS INSCRIBED. PREFACE. Cynics may ask, how many have profited by the innumerable proverbs and maxims of prudence which have been current in the world time out of mind? They will say that their only use is to repeat them after some unhappy wight has “gone wrong.” When, for instance, a man has played “ducks and
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