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Place a padlock on your throat and hide the key.
Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)
The head whose reason has fled is a tail.
Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)
Till the corn be ground with the mill, how can our table be furnished with bread?
Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)
Body is not veiled from soul, neither soul from body,
Yet no man hath ever seen a soul.
Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)
Thou didst sow the seed of deceit, thou didst indulge in derision,
Thou didst regard God as nothing: see now, O miscreant!
Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)
The people of love are hidden among the peoples
As a liberal encompassed by the contumely of the base.
Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)
Seek sweet syrup in the garden of love,
For nature is a seller of vinegar and a crusher of unripened grapes.
Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)
Serpents’ poison is life to serpents,
In relation to mankind it is death.
Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)
Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.
Attributed
With thee how should we be afraid of loss
O thou, who turnest every loss to gain.
Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)
Why does not the soul take wing when from the glorious presence
A speech of sweet favour comes to it saying, 'Aloft!'
Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)
It behoves not, son, to beat a drum under a quilt,
Plant like brave men, thy banner in the midst of the desert.
Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)
They say ‘What is love?’ Say ‘renunciation of will’
Whoso has not escaped from will, no will has he.
Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)
Sensual desire is a bridle and men are as camels
Do not suppose there is any bridle except that for the senseless camel.
Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)
The soul resembles day and the body night and we in the middle
Are like the dawn between oar own day and night.
Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)
The bough’s attraction drew the sap from root to summit,
Even as attraction draws the soul upward without a ladder.
Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)
All creatures are enslaved to thought,
For this cause are they sad at heart and sorrowful.
Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)
Only in the night the moon shines,
Only in pain of heart seek the Beloved.
Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)
All hearts are the abodes of devils
Be not deceived by devil-men.
Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)
Your heart is as Solomon’s signet; take care
That it falls not a prey to demons.
Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)