Lest thou strike thy knee with the hand of pain.
If he points thy way to the right like an arrow
Deflect therefrom and take that to the left hand.
Similar Posts
Two men died, bearing away their grief. One had possessed wealth and not enjoyed it, the other knowledge and not practised it.
Without publishing his defectBut if a liberal man has a hundred faultsHis generosity covers his imperfections.
I have heard that a royal prince of short stature and mean presence,
glancing on him with aversion and contempt but he had the shrewdnessand penetration to guess the meaning and said: ‘O father, a punyintelligent fellow is better than a tall ignorant man, neither iseverything bigger in stature higher in price. A sheep is nice to eatand an elephant is carrion.’The smallest mountain on earth is Jur;…
A sick man having been asked what his heart desired replied: ‘That it may not desire anything.’
There is no use in all other things being right.
The earth receives showers from heaven and gives to it only dust. Every vessel exudes what it contains.
Lose not thy own good humour.
A bareheaded and barefooted pedestrian who had arrived from Kufah with the Hejaz-caravan of pilgrims joined us, strutted about and recited:
I am neither a lord of subjects nor the slave of a potentate.Grief for the present, or distress for the past, does not trouble me.I draw my breath in comfort and thus spend my life.’A camel-rider shouted to him: ‘O dervish, where art thou going? Return, for thou wilt expire from hardships.’ He paid no…