{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/arw/arw17.htm","path":"isl/arw/arw17.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/arw/arw17.htm","text":"Arabian Wisdom, by John Wortabet, [1913]\nTo carry a heavy rock to the summit of a mountain is easier than to receive a kindness which is flaunted.\nThe bane of a generous action is to mention it.\nIt is better to refuse a kindness than to be reminded of it.\nI would not accept the whole world if I were to suffer the humiliation of being constantly reminded of the gift.\nTo bestow and flaunt a kindness, and to be stingy and refuse to do an act of kindness, are equally bad.\nWhen you do a kindness hide it, and when a kindness is done to you proclaim it.\nDo good, and throw it into the sea.","title":"Arabian Wisdom: Flaunting Kindness","type":"page"}