Beautiful one-hundred passing thoughts by the Sheikh - Abdullah Quilliam
- FIFTY ONE -
As foul gas escapes from a sewer, so doth bad language and evil thoughts emerge from a foul mind.
- FIFTY TWO -
Spite is the meanest revenge of the meanest mind.
- FIFTY THREE -
Work kills few, worry slays thousands.
- FIFTY FOUR -
Slander is like mud; throw it against a mud wall and it will adhere, but cast it against marble and it falls off as it grows older, and even the stains wash away.
- FIFTY FIVE -
Slander is the favourite weapon of cowards.
- FIFTY SIX -
The stars sprinkled over the sky are the favourite handwriting of the Creator, and the sentence they spell is ‘There is only One God.’
- FIFTY SEVEN -
Kindness is the oil which causes the hinge of the gate of Paradise to open easily.
- FIFTY EIGHT -
Small sorrows worry us, great ones prove us.
- FIFTY NINE -
The jackass who brays loudest is not always the best worker.
- SIXTY -
Do you want to be good? Then do good.
- SIXTY ONE -
What the mother does the child thinks.
- SIXTY TWO -
Misfortune tests, prosperity often spoils the man.
- SIXTY THREE -
Bad habits are as contagious as the measles, and young people are the most liable to catch both.
- SIXTY FOUR -
Beneficence spreads its roots deep and its branches far.
- SIXTY FIVE -
Money and water are both good things when used properly, but they are both apt to become stagnant and useless, even poisonous, when kept too long.
- SIXTY SIX -
Luxury begets effeminacy, and the off-spring of effeminacy is ruin.
- SIXTY SEVEN -
Slander would soon die of starvation if nobody fed it.
- SIXTY EIGHT -
Which is the strangest: eternal life, or life at all?
- SIXTY NINE -
The richest man is the one who is contented with what he has got.
- SEVENTY -
One kiss is worth more than a thousand kicks.
- SEVENTY ONE -
Evil thoughts like birds may alight anywhere, but that is no reason why they should not be driven away.
- SEVENTY TWO -
Foolish elders make foolish juniors.
- SEVENTY THREE -
Some people give gifts like blows.
- SEVENTY FOUR -
It is unfair to say that a man does good deeds only for effect because he does them with effect.
- SEVENTY FIVE -
Show me a lazy man, and I will show you a miserable one.
- SEVENTY SIX -
Genius is another name for a combination of energy, industry and patience.
- SEVENTY SEVEN -
It is better to bear injustice than to do it.
- SEVENTY EIGHT -
Learning is useful, but the knowledge of how to use it is wisdom.
- SEVENTY NINE -
Learn to bear little trials with patience, so that you can endure greater ones with complaisance.
- EIGHTY -
Your time and your mind is your garden and your field; let them lie fallow and you will get a good crop of weeds, cultivate them both and you will have a rich harvest of flowers, fruit, and good grain.
- EIGHTY ONE -
The first real step towards heaven is to say farewell to evil.
- EIGHTY TWO -
Little minds always carp at the deeds of greater men.
- EIGHTY THREE -
Ingratitude is the most contemptible trait in a person’s character.
- EIGHTY FOUR -
Never despise instruction even if you have to receive it at the hands of an enemy.
- EIGHTY FIVE -
The first step towards happiness is self-control, the second, self-denial, the final one, persistent effort.
- EIGHTY SIX -
Beware of the person who professes to betray confidences to you in secret.
- EIGHTY SEVEN -
Did you ever hear of a lion who was disturbed by the braying of jackasses?
- EIGHTY EIGHT -
The first turning from the path of duty and honour lies to the crooked lane of adversity.
- EIGHTY NINE -
A man never gains anything by exhibiting his annoyance by his face, much less by bursting into a passion.
- NINETY -
There are two sorts of patience: the one, by which we bear up in adversity, which is fine and beautiful; but the other, that by which we withstand the commission of evil, is better.
- NINETY ONE -
Perfection consists in three things: patience in affliction, moderation in our pursuits, and assisting him that asketh.
- NINETY TWO -
Liberality consists less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.
- NINETY THREE -
Nothing is more apt to remove all good thoughts than want of trust, whereas trust in a person inspires him to do right; we are touched by the good opinion of others, and will not lose it easily.
- NINETY FOUR -
The present hour is all we have.
- NINETY FIVE -
It is now we must be penitent, now we must be holy. This hour has its duty, which cannot be done the next. To-morrow may bring its own opportunities, but will not restore to-day’s.
- NINETY SIX -
Self-reliance and self-denial will teach a man to drink out of his own cistern and eat his own sweet bread, and to learn and labour truly to get his living and carefully expend the good things committed to his trust.
- NINETY SEVEN -
It is far easier to ask for what is impossible than to do that which is possible.
- NINETY EIGHT -
All you have to do in any individual heart is to kindle the higher life and set it to work; and that higher life will conquer all that is lower, because God is in the higher life, and you cannot defeat God.
- NINETY NINE -
Knowledge and timber shouldn’t be much used until they are seasoned.
- ONE HUNDRED -
If you will consider and try and reckon up all the blessings you have enjoyed in life, you will find that although you are a polyglot you will not have language enough to be able to thoroughly describe them all.
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