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James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899.

Koran

God desireth to make your burden light to you, for man hath been created weak.

God taketh an account of all things.

Haste is of the devil.

Men have their metal, as of gold and silver.

Paradise is for those who control their anger.

The heavens and the earth, and all that is between them, think ye we have created them in jest?

There is no God but God, the living, the self-subsisting.

To God belongeth the east and the west; therefore, whithersoever ye turn yourselves to pray, there is the word of God, for God is omnipresent and omniscient.

When a man dies, they who survive him ask what property he has left behind. The angel who bends over the dying man asks what good deeds he has sent before him.