"People are crying up the rich and variegated……" — Saadi
"People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet."
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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 Blushing Quotes
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one of 85 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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A letter does not blush.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions. Monkeys redden from passion but it would take an…
— Charles Darwin
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There is a beautiful spirit breathing now Its mellowed richness on the clustered trees, And, from a beaker full of…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The air was fragrant with a thousand trodden aromatic herbs, with fields of lavender, and with the brightest roses blushing…
— William C. Bryant
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There's a blush for won't, and a blush for shan't, and a blush for having done it: There's a blush…
— John Keats
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Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade. Where'er you…
— Alexander Pope
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At the time of Holy Communion I sometimes picture my soul under the figure of a little child of three…
— Therese of Lisieux
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Nay, but Jack, such eyes! such eyes! so innocently wild! so bashfully irresolute! Not a glance but speaks and kindles…
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to…
— Jerome K. Jerome
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You kissed me like that when I was a blushing bride ...? I wonder what I was blushing about?
— Gracie Allen
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I was very studious, too much. I would never go out at weekends. I was very serious. You should have…
— Eva Green
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