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

Saadi

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
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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Care Expectation Himself Listening Oneself Perfection Return Voice
The remedy against want is to moderate your desires.
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Desire Limitation Yourself
A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.
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Adversity Hard Time Men Prosperity Worth
A grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man.
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Better Dog Gratitude Men Worth
Whatever is produced in haste goes hastily to waste.
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Hurry Wasted
He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.
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Food God Himself Slave Worship
I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.
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Fear God Himself Intellectual Myself
Ants, fighting together, will vanquish the lion.
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Fight Power Togetherness Unity Win
Do to me, O Allah, what is worthy of Thee; And not what is worthy of me.
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God Wisdom Worth
Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it is as one who ploughs but does not sow.
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Educational Inspirational Knowledge Practice
The stranger has no friend, unless it be a stranger.
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Friendship Stranger
The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.
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Bad Earth Face Fortune Heaven Nature
Expose not the secret failings of mankind, otherwise you must verily bring scandal upon them and distrust upon yourself.
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Failure Man Secret Yourself
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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Difference Expectation Eyes Herself Himself
Use a sweet tongue, courtesy, and gentleness, and thou mayest manage to guide an elephant by a hair.
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Animal Guide Hairs Power Tongue

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