"If a gem falls into mud it is……" — Saadi
"If a gem falls into mud it is still valuable. If dust ascends to heaven, it remains valueless."
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107 Quotes by Saadi
Saadi has 107 quotes on this site.
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When you see contention amongst your enemies, go and sit at ease with your friends; but when you see them…
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Inflict not on an enemy every injury in your power, for he may afterwards become your friend.
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He will deal harshly by a stranger who has not been himself often a traveller or stranger.
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Oh God, I say not hear my prayers! I say: Blot with forgiving pen my sins away!
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Now that another is suffering pain at thy hand, trust not that thy heart shall be exempt from affliction.
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Expose not the secret failings of mankind, otherwise you must verily bring scandal upon them and distrust upon yourself.
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There is no great difficulty to separate the soul from the body, but it is not so easy to restore…
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The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that…
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The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
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To tell a falsehood is like the cut of a saber: for though the wound may heal, the scar of…
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A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains,…
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Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your…
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More Ascends Quotes
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Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and…
— James Allen
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No erudition, no purity of diction, no width of mental outlook, no flowers of eloquence, no grace of person can…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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When there is no thought. no desire, no ambition, in that state of no-mind truth descends in you - or…
— Rajneesh
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May your heart be an altar, from which the bright flame of unending thanksgiving ascends to heaven.
— Mary Euphrasia Pelletier
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The Church was redeemed at the price of Christ's blood. Jew or Greek, it makes no difference; but if he…
— Ambrose
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The superior man has nothing to compete for. But if he must compete, he does it in an archery match,…
— Confucius
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Praise lies upon a higher plain than thanksgiving. When I give thanks, my thoughts still circle around myself to some…
— Ole Hallesby
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In creating a work of art, the psyche or soul of the artist ascends from the earthly realm into the…
— Pavel Florensky
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Politics moves upward into ethics, and ethics ascends to theology.
— Russell Kirk
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Away with tears and fears and troubles! United in wedlock with the eternal Godhead Itself, our nature ascends into the…
— C.S. Lewis
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If our Lord ascends up to Heaven, ascend with Him. Be one of those angels who escort Him, or one…
— Gregory of Nazianzus
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The world is nothing, the man is all; in yourself is the law of all nature, and you know not…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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