Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
SAADIWhatever is produced in haste goes hastily to waste.
More Saadi Quotes
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Have patience. Everything is difficult before it is easy.
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It’s no virtue to gain the whole world. Just gain the heart of one person.
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Make no friendship with an elephant keeper If you have no room to entertain an elephant.
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You who feel no pain at the suffering of others It is not fitting for you to be called human.
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Keep belly lightly loaded, if mind would wisdom see; For bodies crammed to bursting, make empty souls to be.
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A lovely face is the solace of wounded hearts and the key of locked-up gates.
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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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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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In the sea there are countless treasures, But if you desire safety, it is on the shore.
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Be generous, and pleasant-tempered, and forgiving; even as God scatter favors over thee, do thou scatter over the people.
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A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.
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The heart is like a musical instrument of many strings, all the chords of which require putting in harmony.
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It is better to break off a thousand friendships, than to endure the sight of a single enemy.
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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 tree, freshly rooted, may be pulled up by one man on his own. Give it time, and it will not be moved, even with a crane.
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