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Thou who dost blame injustice in mankind
'Tis but the image of thine own dark mind;
In them reflected all thy nature is
With all its angles and obliquities;
Around thyself thyself the noose hast thrown
And dost a self-inflicted wound bemoan;
‘Back to each other we reflections throw’
So spoke the holy Prophet long ago:
And he who gazes through a glass that’s dim
What wonder if the world look dark to him?

— Rumi Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)

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