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If a gem falls into mud it is still valuable. If dust ascends to heaven, it remains valueless.

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However much you study, you cannot know without action. A donkey laden with books is neither an intellectual nor a wise man. Empty of essence, what learning has he whether upon him is firewood or book?
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Action Book Empty Fire Himself Intellectual Learning Philosophy Study Wisdom
God gives sleep to the bad, in order that the good may be undisturbed.
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Bad Disturb God Goodness Sleep
Oh God, I say not hear my prayers! I say: Blot with forgiving pen my sins away!
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Forgiveness God Myself Prayer Sin
If a gem falls into mud it is still valuable. If dust ascends to heaven, it remains valueless.
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Change Fall Heaven Value Wisdom Worth
The stranger has no friend, unless it be a stranger.
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Friendship Stranger
You who feel no pain at the suffering of others It is not fitting for you to be called human.
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Feeling Human Pain Suffering Yourself
The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich.
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Best Character Charity God Humility Love Rich
Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.
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Advice Deep Prison Tree Virtue
Every person thinks his own intellect perfect, and his own child handsome.
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Appearance Beautiful Children Intellectual Perfection Thinking
Whoever interrupts the conversation of others to make a display of his fund of knowledge, makes notorious his own stock of ignorance.
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Ignorance Knowledge
Were the diver to think on the jaws of the shark, he would never lay hands on the precious pearl.
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Fear Hands Himself Jewel Thinking
The sons of Adam are formed from dust; if not humble as the dust, they fall short of being men.
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Fall Family Human Humble Humility Man Son
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
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Deep Happiness Rose Sorrow Togetherness Wisdom
A tree, freshly rooted, may be pulled up by one man on his own. Give it time, and it will not be moved, even with a crane.
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Men Strong Time Tree Wisdom
Make no friendship with an elephant keeper If you have no room to entertain an elephant.
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Deep Entertainment Friendship Wisdom
He who is intoxicated with wine will be sober again in the course of the night, but he who is intoxicated by the cupbearer will not recover his senses until the day of judgement.
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Himself Judgement Night Recovery Wine

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