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Use a sweet tongue, courtesy, and gentleness, and thou mayest manage to guide an elephant by a hair.

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Joy and sorrow, beauty and deformity, equally pass away.
SAADI

Beautiful End Equality Joy Sorrow Time
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
A traveler without knowledge is a bird without wings.
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Inspirational Knowledge Travel Wasted Wings
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
Patience accomplishes its object, while hurry speeds to its ruin.
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Accomplishment Patience Ruin
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
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
Man is, beyond dispute, the most excellent of created beings, and the vilest animal is a dog; but the sages agree that a grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man.
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Animal Beyond Creation Dog Excellence Gratitude Human Man Worth
A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men.
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Beautiful Company Girl Ignorance Man Wasted 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
Publish not men’s secret faults, for by disgracing them you make yourself of no repute.
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Grace Men Mistake Reputation Secret Yourself
Be not in the desire of thine own ease.
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Desire Feeling Selfish
He who lives upon the fruit of his own labor, escapes the contempt of haughty benefactors.
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Escape Fruit Himself Live
Forgiveness is commendable, but apply not ointment to the wound of an oppressor.
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Forgiveness Oppression Wound
An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend.
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Compassion Kindness Lust
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
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Goodness Himself Ignorance Men Silence

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