{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/arw/arw31.htm","path":"isl/arw/arw31.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/arw/arw31.htm","text":"Arabian Wisdom, by John Wortabet, [1913]\nOpportunities move like clouds, or pass rapidly like meteors.\nSeize a thief before he seizes you.\nTake advantage of the light of day before the night sets in.\nSeize on opportunities, for they are either a spoil if improved, or a grief if neglected.\nGood judgment means a seizure of opportunities.\nKeep quiet until the occasion presents itself.\nAn action may be good if done at a fitting season, or evil if done at an improper time.\nProcrastination means evil.\nPut your bread into the oven while it is hot.\nIf you undertake a work do it speedily.\nProfit by occasions when they turn up, and do not worry about an evil which has not yet come.\nTime is a sharp sword\u2014strike with it before you are struck by it.\nIf you have not sown, and see a reaper in the field, you will regret a lost opportunity.","title":"Arabian Wisdom: Opportunities","type":"page"}