{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/ssw/ssw24.htm","path":"isl/ssw/ssw24.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/ssw/ssw24.htm","text":"Sadi's Scroll of Wisdom, by Arthur N. Wollaston, [1906]\nO soul! if thou makest choice of rectitude,\n Fortune will become to thee an auspicious companion.\n A wise man doth not turn aside his head from rectitude,\n Since from rectitude a man's name is exalted.\n If thou breathest truth at morn\n Thou wilt avoid the darkness of ignorance.\n Beware that thou breathest nought save rectitude,\n Since the right hand holdeth pre-eminence over the left, p. 56\n Nought is better in the world than rectitude,\n For in the rosebud of rectitude there is no thorn.","title":"Sadi's Scroll of Wisdom: Description of Rectitude","type":"page"}