"That which is not allotted the hand cannot……" — Saadi
"That which is not allotted the hand cannot reach; what is allotted you will find wherever you may be."
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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 Allotted Quotes
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one of 71 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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If we accept and internalize the fact of our own mortality, then, by definition, we have to deal with the…
— Surya Das
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Maybe happiness was just a matter of the little upticks- the traffic signal that said "Walk" the second you go…
— Ann Brashares
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Failure or success seems to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling,…
— E. M. Forster
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Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding, can expect only to improve a single science. In…
— Samuel Johnson
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You stars that reigned at my nativity, whose influence hath allotted death and hell.
— Christopher Marlowe
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His [Henry Cavendish's] Theory of the Universe seems to have been, that it consisted solely of a multitude of objects…
— George Wilson
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The occurrence of any event where the chances are beyond one in ten followed by 50 zeros is an event…
— Emile Borel
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This planet is an exquisitely arranged and interconnected system. What's controlled in one place is going to have consequences in…
— Marjorie Harris
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Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth,…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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A realistic expectation also demands our acceptance that one's allotted time on earth must be limited to an allowance consistent…
— Sherwin B. Nuland
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[M]y fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe; who presides in the councils of nations; and…
— George Washington
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It may not be improper, however, to remark two consequences, evidently flowing from an extension of the federal power to…
— James Madison
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