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Sweet are the garden, the rose, and wine, but they would not be sweet without the company of my darling.
Slight me not zealot, go thou hence ashamed
For naught is slight that has by God been framed.
A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)
Like are, if void of purity, the k‘aba and the idle-fane
The house that has not chastity can in its walls no good contain.
A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)
Be misery thy portion here, O Sage, or be it bliss
Refer it not to other men: ’tis God who orders this.
A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)
Learn meekness from the shell in ocean’s bed
And pearls on one who wounds thy head bestow.
A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)
Though many a rose in this garden is born
No mortal who culls one escapes from the thorn.
A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)
'Tis writ on Paradise's gate,
"Woe to the dupe that yields to Fate!"
The meshes of the net are strong but God withholds His grace from none,
Not otherwise could man prevail o’er Satan the stone-pelted one.
A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)
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