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Religion is only in the service of the people; it is not in the rosary and the prayer-carpet.

Saadi

The stranger has no friend, unless it be a stranger.
SAADI

Friendship Stranger
Make no friendship with an elephant keeper If you have no room to entertain an elephant.
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Deep Entertainment Friendship Wisdom
A grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man.
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Better Dog Gratitude Men Worth
A lovely face is the solace of wounded hearts and the key of locked-up gates.
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Appearance Face Heart Keys Love Wound
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
Two orders of mankind are the enemies of church and state; the king without clemency, and the holy man without learning.
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Enemy Kind Learning Man Religious Rule
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
Keep belly lightly loaded, if mind would wisdom see; For bodies crammed to bursting, make empty souls to be.
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Body Empty Mindset See Soul Wisdom
God gives sleep to the bad, in order that the good may be undisturbed.
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Bad Disturb God Goodness Sleep
I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.
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Fear God Himself Intellectual Myself
Be thou good thyself, and let people speak evil of thee; it is better than to be wicked, and that they should consider thee as good.
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Evil Goodness People
When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.
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Body Deep Empty Food Spirit Spiritual
Be generous, and pleasant-tempered, and forgiving; even as God scatter favors over thee, do thou scatter over the people.
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Forgiveness Generosity God People
He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.
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Food God Himself Slave Worship
Do to me, O Allah, what is worthy of Thee; And not what is worthy of me.
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God Wisdom Worth
Holiness comes by holy deeds. Not starving flesh of daily needs.
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Holy Need Starve

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