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We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.
Topic: Advice
Source: None
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We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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An Arab, by his earnest gaze,
Has clothed a lovely maid with blushes;
A smile within his eyelids plays
And into words his longing gushes.
Topic: Blushes
Source: Oriental Poetry--Love Sowing and Reaping Roses
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Words of love, are works of love.
Topic: Books and Reading
Source: None
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Ten poor men sleep in peace on one straw heap, as Saadi sings,
But the immensest empire is too narrow for two kings.
Topic: Content
Source: Oriental Poetry--Elbow Room
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Fill up the goblet and reach to me some!
Drinking makes wise, but dry fasting makes glum.
Topic: Drinking
Source: Oriental Poetry--Wine Song of Kaitmas
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False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.
Topic: Eloquence
Source: None
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False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.
Topic: Exaggeration
Source: None
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A gray eye is a sly eye,
And roguish is a brown one;
Turn full upon me thy eye,--
Ah, how its wavelets drown one!
A blue eye is a true eye;
Mysterious is a dark one,
Which flashes like a spark-sun!
A black eye is the best one.
Topic: Eyes
Source: Oriental Poetry--Mirtsa Schaffy on Eyes
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Beware the deadly fumes of that insane elation
Which rises from the cup of mad impiety,
And go, get drunk with that divine intoxication
Which is more sober far than all sobriety.
Topic: Intemperance
Source: Oriental Poetry--The Sober Drunkenness
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As two floating planks meet and part on the sea,
O friend! so I met and then drifted from thee.
Topic: Meeting
Source: Oriental Poetry--The Brief Chance Encounter
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The moon is a silver pin-head vast,
That holds the heaven's tent-hangings fast.
Topic: Moon
Source: Oriental Poetry--The Use of the Moon
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A thousand year a poor man watched
Before the gate of Paradise:
But while one little nap he snatched,
It oped and shut. Ah! was he wise?
Topic: Opportunity
Source: Oriental Poetry--Swift Opportunity
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In the nine heavens are eight Paradises;
Where is the ninth one? In the human breast.
Only the blessed dwell in th' Paradises,
But blessedness dwells in the human breast.
Topic: Paradise
Source: Oriental Poetry--The Ninth Paradise
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With strength and patience all his grievous loads are borne,
And from the world's rose-bed he only asks a thorn.
Topic: Patience
Source: Oriental Poetry, Mussud's Praise of the Camel
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Ten poor men sleep in peace on one straw heap, as Saadi sings,
But the immensest empire is too narrow for two kings.
Topic: Royalty
Source: Oriental Poetry--Elbow Room
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Words of love, are works of love.
Topic: Words
Source: None
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Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.
Topic: Wrath
Source: None
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