Saadi Quotes - Page 7

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• Who eat their corn while yet 'tis green
  At the true harvest can but glean.

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  Green, Corn, Harvest

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• If thou covetest riches, ask not but for contentment, which is an immense treasure.

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  Contentment, Treasure, Riches

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• So long as money can answer, it were wrong in any business to put the life in danger.

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  Long, Answers, Danger

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• In the faculty of speech man excels the brute; but if thou utterest what is improper, the brute is they superior.

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  Men, Speech, Faculty

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• To be over much facetious is the accomplishment of courtiers and blemish of the wise.

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  Wise, Accomplishment, Wit

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• If thou tellest the sorrows of thy heart, let it be to him in whose countenance thou mayst be assured of prompt consolation.

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  Heart, Sorrow, Consolation

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• Inflict not on an enemy every injury in your power, for he may afterwards become your friend.

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  War, Enemy, May

  Saadi, Francis Gladwin, Eric Serejski (2016). “Gulistan or Rose Garden”, p.149, Innovations and Information

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• Most of the birds of the Old World can be found here, as Oman is on a strategic route for migrating birds

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  Bird, World, Found

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• Though someday we may become as eloquent as Sahban, but we might also miss the essence of the Forgiving One.

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  Essence, Missing, Soul

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• Great God, have pity on the wicked, for thou didst everything for the good, when thou madest them good!

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  Wicked, Wickedness, Pity

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• Whenever thy hand can reach it, tear out the foe's brain, for such an opportunity washes anger from the mind.

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  Anger, Opportunity, Hands

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• The whelp of a wolf must prove a wolf at last, notwithstanding he may be brought up by a man.

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  Men, May, Lasts

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• To him who is stinted of food a boiled turnip will relish like a roast fowl.

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  Fowl, Hunger, Turnips

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• That knave preserves the pearl in his purse who considers all people purse-cuts.

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  Cutting, People, Pearls

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• But for the cravings of the belly not a bird would have fallen into the snare; nay, nay, the fowler would not have spread his net. The belly is chains to the hands and fetters to the feet. He who is a slave to his belly seldom worships God.

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  Feet, Hands, Bird

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• To use the hands in making quicklime into mortar is better than to cross them on the breast in attendance on a prince.

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  Hands, Attendance, Use

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• The covetous map explores the whole world in pursuit of a subsistence, and fate is close at his heels.

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  Fate, World, Maps

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• Oman overall has great animal and plant biodiversity because it has mountains, desert, coastal areas and rich coral reefs.

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  Animal, Mountain, Desert

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