...three. It was so venerated by the Pythagoreans that they swore by it. Omar, the second caliph, said : " Four things come not back — the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, the neglected opportunity," In the sacred Scriptures there are four rivers of Paradise, and four artificial...

...commission, His promises, His Spirit, Himself. Oh, let us not surrender ! It was said by a Moslem, " Four things come not back : the spoken word, the sped...arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity." Let the weighty truths be now digested by the Christian. We cannot disguise the fact that there are...

...destruction. Speak, act, and lice the exact truth always, and let truth go hand-in-hand with love. FOUR things come not back : the spoken word, the sped...arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity. THE world judges by actions ; God by the motives. For The Dayspring. KITTY'S FIRST COMPOSITION. BY...

...you from a mistake you could never retrieve. There is an old Arab proverb, Gladys, which says, " that four things come not back :" the spoken word — the sped arrow — the past life — the neglected opportunity. Do not then speak that word, which once spoken can never come back to...

...prosperity always to shine on us we should soon forget our Father's house — our inheritance above. Four things come not back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, the neglected opportunity. THE LINOTYPE. WHEN people talk about the marvels of printing and the changes...

...their little hands with sand, then let the grains fall through one by one, till they are all gone. Four things come not back; the spoken word; the sped...arrow; the past life; and the neglected opportunity. Opportunity has hair in front, behind she is bald; if you seize her by the forelock you may hold her,...

...Islam. He had shrewd maxims on which he squared his conduct, of which the following is a specimen. "Foui things come not back : the spoken word ; the sped...arrow ; the past life, and the neglected opportunity." During his reign mosques were erected without number for the instruction and devotion of the faithful,...

...Islam. He had shrewd maxims on which he squared his conduct, of which the following is a specimen. " Four things come not back : the spoken word ; the...arrow ; the past life, and the neglected opportunity." During his reign mosques were erected without number for the instruction and devotion of the faithful,...

...self-denial; and his discourse was full of pithy maxims. He was wont to say, ' Four things come лоь back — The spoken word; the sped arrow; the past life; and the neglected opportunity.' It was proposed in the assembly of the Arab Sheikhs to give him the title of 'Caliph of the Caliph...

...that it was too late to repair them. " Four things," says the Eastern sage, " come not back again : the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity." My brothers, what fate can be more awful than that of having to look back upon a wasted life through...