{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/arw/arw32.htm","path":"isl/arw/arw32.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/arw/arw32.htm","text":"Arabian Wisdom, by John Wortabet, [1913]\nEconomy saves half the cost of living.\nThe value of economy is equal to half of your profits,\nFrugality saves a man from poverty.\nLittle with economy is better than much with waste.\nPoverty with freedom from debt is great wealth.\nIf you count beforehand you will thrive.\nThe sea is made up of drops and the mountain of grains.\nMy son, take a middle course between stinginess and extravagance, parsimony and prodigality.\nExtravagance dissipates great riches, and economy increases them when they are small.\nExtravagance ever leads to misery and ruin.\nExtravagance does as much harm to life as it adds to the pleasures of living.\nIn all things take a middle course.\nCharity lies between two charities\u2014one to yourself, the other to your needy fellow man.\nIf you are too soft you will be squeezed, and if you are too dry you will be broken.\nHe who spends and reckons not, ends in ruin and knows not.\nHe who buys cheap meat will regret his purchase when it is served up.","title":"Arabian Wisdom: Economy","type":"page"}