Have patience. Everything is difficult before it is easy.
SAADITake care how you listen to the voice of the flatterer, who, in return for his little stock, expects to derive from you considerable advantage. If one day you do not comply with his wishes, be imputes to you two hundred defects instead of perfections.
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It’s no virtue to gain the whole world. Just gain the heart of one person.
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Every leaf of the tree becomes a page of the book, once the heart is opened and it has learnt to read.
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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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Oh God, I say not hear my prayers! I say: Blot with forgiving pen my sins away!
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A dog will never forget the crumb thou gavest him, though thou mayst afterwards throw a hundred stones at his head.
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Forgiveness is commendable, but apply not ointment to the wound of an oppressor.
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There is a difference between him who claspeth his mistress in his arms, and him whose eyes are fixed on the door expecting her.
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I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.
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Take care how you listen to the voice of the flatterer, who, in return for his little stock, expects to derive from you considerable advantage. If one day you do not comply with his wishes, be imputes to you two hundred defects instead of perfections.
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Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
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To tell a falsehood is like the cut of a saber: for though the wound may heal, the scar of it will remain.
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When thou seest thine enemy in trouble, curl not thy whiskers in contempt; for in every bone there is marrow, and within every jacket there is a man.
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Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.
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He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.
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Be not in the desire of thine own ease.
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