Imam Ali on cattle
Imam Ali100 quotes“I was not created to be occupied by eating delicious foods like tied up cattle.”
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The most helpless person is the one who is helpless in reforming himself.
Imam AliImam Ali Your souls are precious and can only be equal to the price of Paradise, therefore sell them only at that price
Imam AliImam Ali The best companion and helper is admirable morals.
Imam AliImam Ali Poverty is the worst form of death.
Imam AliImam Ali Do not let your difficulties fill you with anxiety, after all it is only in the darkest nights that stars shine more brightly.
Imam AliImam Ali Wealth tends to create enemies, whereas knowledge tends to warm hearts.
Imam AliImam Ali Hide the good you do, and make known the good done to you.
Imam AliImam Ali I wonder at a man who loses hope of salvation when the door of repentance is open for him.
Imam AliImam Ali One who thinks and reflects develops his foresight and vision.
Imam AliImam Ali The word of God is the medicine of the heart.
Imam AliImam Ali Never explain yourself to anyone, because the one who likes you would not need it, and the one dislikes you wouldn’t believe it.
Imam AliImam Ali No wealth like education and no poverty like ignorance.
Imam AliImam Ali Many a spoken word is more piercing than an attack.
Imam AliImam Ali The worst of our faults is our interest in other people’s faults.
Imam AliImam Ali Vanity prevents improvement
Imam AliImam Ali The disease of the heart is worse than the disease of the body.
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Only the story can continue beyond the war and the warrior. The story outlives the sound of the war drum… The story is our escort. Without it we are blind… It is the thing that sets us apart from cattle.
Chinua AchebeChinua Achebe When a herd of cattle see a strange object, they are not satisfied till each one has sniffed it; and the horse is cured of his fright at the robe, or the meal-bag, or other object, as soon as he can be induced to smell it.
John BurroughsJohn Burroughs Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
Alan BennettAlan Bennett Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
Al YankovicAl Yankovic Even if all the cattle on the range look pretty much alike.
Al RiesAl Ries A branding program should be designed to differentiate your cow from all the other cattle on the range.
Al RiesAl Ries Foolish people follow the system, get caught up in media news, what the government wants you to believe and all the higher powers want you to believe, and go down the same path as all the sheep in the cattle market.
Tyson FuryTyson Fury Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.
DemocritusDemocritus