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1821–1890 England
Sir Richard Francis Burton (19 March 1821 – 20 October 1890) was a British consul, explorer, translator, writer, poet, Orientalist and swordsman known for his often-unprecedented exploits of travel and exploration as well as his extraordinary knowledge of languages and cultures.
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"'Tis blessed to believe"; you say: The saying may be true enow
The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)
What is the Truth? was askt of yore. Reply all object Truth is one
The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)
Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause;
The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)
What see we here? Forms, nothing more! Forms fill the brightest, strongest eye,
The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)
"Be ye Good Boys, go seek for Heav'en, come pay the priest that holds the key;"
The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)
Starting in a hollowed log of wood — some thousand miles up a river, with an infinitesimal prospect of returning! I ask myself 'Why?' and the only echo is 'damned fool!... the Devil drives'.
With Hâjî Abdû the soul is not material, for that would be a contradiction of terms. He regards it, with many moderns, as a state of things, not a thing; a convenient word denoting the sense of personality, of individual identity.
The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)
Indeed it was a tradition of Ibn Abbas (Allah accept of him!) that the Apostle said, 'Whoso cutteth his hair on a Friday, the Lord shall avert from him threescore and ten calamities'
A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.
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So much to learn!
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