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• Kitab Al-Mumin (in Arabic and English), by al-Husayn ibn Sa'id Ahwazi (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)

• Kitab Al-Mumin (in Arabic and English), by al-Husayn ibn Sa'id Ahwazi (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• A Brief History of the Fourteen Infallibles (Tehran: World Organization for Islamic Services, 1984) (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)
• Al-Imam al-Mahdi: The Just Leader of Humanity, by Ibrahim Amini, trans. by Abdulaziz Sachedina (HTML at al-islam.org)
• The Life of Imam 'Ali al-Hadi: Study and Analysis, by Baqir Sharif Quarashi (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)
• Nafasul Mahmum Relating to the Heart Rending Tragedy of Karbala, by 'Abbas ibn Muhammad Rida Qummi (HTML at al-islam.org)

• A Divine Perspective on Rights: A Commentary on Imam Sajjad's "The Treatise of Rights" (original treatise in Arabic, with translation and commentary in English), by Zayn al-'Abidin 'Ali ibn al-Husayn and Ghodratullah Mashayekhi, trans. by Ali Peiravi and Lisa Zaynab Morgan (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)

• Nahjul Balagha, by Muhammad ibn al-Husayn Sharif al-Radi
  • Part 1 (Sermons): multiple formats at al-islam.org
  • Part 2 (Letters and Sayings): multiple formats at al-islam.org

• Al-Amali: The Dictations of Sheikh al-Mufid, by Muhammad ibn Muammad Mufid, trans. by Asgharali M. M. Jaffer (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)

• A Bundle of Flowers from the Garden of Traditions of the Prophet & Ahlul-Bayt, ed. by Kamal Faghih Imani, trans. by Abbas Sadr-ameli (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)
• A Shi'ite Anthology, ed. by Muhammad Husayn Tabataba'i, trans. by William C. Chittick (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)

• The Life of Imam 'Ali al-Hadi: Study and Analysis, by Baqir Sharif Quarashi (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)

• Imam Husain and His Martyrdom, by Abdullah Yusuf Ali (HTML at al-islam.org)
• Nafasul Mahmum Relating to the Heart Rending Tragedy of Karbala, by 'Abbas ibn Muhammad Rida Qummi (HTML at al-islam.org)

• The Revolution of al-Husayn: Its Impact on the Consciousness of Muslim Society, by Muhammad Mahdi Shams al-Din, trans. by I. K. A. Howard (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)

• Karbala and Ashura, by Ali Hussain Jalali (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)

• Al-Imam al-Mahdi: The Just Leader of Humanity, by Ibrahim Amini, trans. by Abdulaziz Sachedina (HTML at al-islam.org)

• Wikiquote (electronic edition, collaboratively updated) (HTML at wikiquote.org)
• Geflügelte Worte (in German; Berlin: Haude und Spener, 1880), by Georg Büchmann (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Geflügelte Worte (in German; Berlin: Haude und Spener, 1882), by Georg Büchmann (page images at HathiTrust)

• An Introduction to Wysedome (London: T. Berthelet, 1544), by Juan Luis Vives, trans. by Richard Morison, contrib. by Desiderius Erasmus (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Why Do We Quote? The Culture and History of Quotation (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2011), by Ruth H. Finnegan
  • multiple formats at Open Book Publishers
  • page images at Google

• Middlemarch: Epigraphs and Mirrors (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2021), by Adam Roberts (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• The Dying Hours of Good and Bad Men Contrasted (1854), ed. by Daniel P. Kidder (PDF in Australia)
• Infidel Death-Beds (New York: Truth Seeker Company, ca. 1910), by G. W. Foote (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Life, Last Words and Dying Speech of Stephen Smith, a Black Man, Who Was Executed at Boston This Day Being Thursday, October 12, 1797 for Burglary (1797), by Stephen Smith (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• Trials and Confessions of Madison Henderson, Alias Blanchard, Alfred Amos Warrick, James W. Seward, and Charles Brown, Murderers of Jesse Baker and Jacob Weaver, as Given by Themselves; and A Likeness of Each, Taken in Jail Shortly after Their Arrest (St. Louis: Chambers and Knapp, 1841), ed. by A. B. Chambers, contrib. by Madison Henderson, James W. Seward, Alfred Amos Warrick, and Charles Brown (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Life, and Dying Speech of Arthur, a Negro Man, Who Was Executed at Worcester, October 10, 1768, For a Rape Committed on the Body of One Deborah Metcalfe (1768), by Arthur (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Last Words and Dying Speech of Edmund Fortis, a Negro Man (1795), by Edmund Fortis (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Sketches of the Life of Joseph Mountain, a Negro, Who Was Executed at New-Haven, on the 20th Day of October, 1790, for a Rape, Committed on the 26th Day of May Last (New Haven, CT: T. and S. Green, 1790), by Joseph Mountain, ed. by David Daggett (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Art of Worldly Wisdom, by Baltasar Gracián y Morales, trans. by Joseph Jacobs (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Reflections: or, Sentences and Moral Maxims (London: Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, 1871), by François La Rochefoucauld, trans. by J. W. Willis Bund and J. Hain Friswell (Gutenberg text)
• Sparks From the Philosopher's Stone (London: D. Bogue, 1882), by James Lendall Basford
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Economy of Human Life (this edition attributed to Dodsley, with illustrations "by F. Howard, Harvey, Williams, etc."; London: John van Voorst, 1834), contrib. by Robert Dodsley and Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, illust. by F. Howard (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Economy of Human Life, in Two Books (this edition attributed to Dodsley; London: Printed for Shirley, Neely, and Jones, et al., 1809), contrib. by Robert Dodsley and Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, illust. by Frederick Mackenzie, W. M. Craig, and Thomas Uwins (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Economy of Human Life: Translated From an Indian Manuscript, Written by An Ancient Bramin (work attributed variously to Dodsley and Chesterfield; London: Printed for T. Tegg, 1811), contrib. by Robert Dodsley and Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Economy of Human Life, Translated from an Indian Manuscript, Written by an Ancient Bramin; To Which is Prefixed an Account of the Manner in Which the Said Manuscript Was Discovered (work attributed variously to Dodsley and Chesterfield; Philadelphia: Jacob Johnson, 1807), contrib. by Robert Dodsley and Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, illust. by Alexander Anderson (page images at Google)
• The Wisdom of Life, by Arthur Schopenhauer, ed. by T. Bailey Saunders (Gutenberg text)
• The Wanderer (1932), by Kahlil Gibran (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• The Sayings of the Wise, or, Food for Thought: A Book of Moral Wisdom, Gathered From the Ancient Philosophers (London: E. Stock, 1908), by William Baldwin
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Treatise of Morall Phylosophie, Contayning the Sayings of the Wyse (London: E. Whitchurche, 1547)
  • negative page images at HathiTrust
  • HTML at EEBO TCP
• The Gulistan, by Sa'di (HTML at Internet Classics)
• The Gulistan, by Sa'di, trans. by James Ross (HTML at Fordham)
• The Gulistan of Sa'di, by Sa'di, trans. by Edward Rehatsek (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs, Wise Sentences, and Witty Sayings, Ancient and Modern, Foreign and British (new edition, with Ramsay's collection of Scottish proverbs added; London: T. and J. Allman, 1819), ed. by Thomas Fuller, contrib. by Allan Ramsay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proverbial Lore in Nebraska (1933), by Emma Louise Snapp (PDF at unl.edu)
• Signs, Omens, and Portents in Nebraska Folklore (1933), by Margaret Cannell (PDF at unl.edu)
• A Dictionary of International Slurs (Ethnophaulisms); With a Supplementary Essay on Aspects of Ethnic Prejudice (Cambridge, MA: Sci-Art Publishers, c1944), by A. A. Roback (page images at HathiTrust)
• One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed (deluxe edition, 1907), by C. A. Bogardus (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• Arabian Wisdom: Selections and Translations From the Arabic (1913), by John Wortabet (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• Fragments of Confucian Lore: A Selection of Short Quotations with the Original Text (Shanghai: North-China Daily News and Herald, 1920), by Confucius, ed. by Thomas T. H. Ferguson, trans. by James Legge (multiple formats at archive.org)

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