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You say 'Although the fear of loss is before me,
Yet I feel greater fear in remaining idle.
I have a better hope through exerting myself
My fear is increased by remaining idle.'
Why then, O faint-hearted one in the matter of religion,
Are you paralysed by the fear of loss?
See you not how the traders in this market of ours
Make large profits, both apostles and saints?

— Rumi Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)

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