| 18 Famous Quotes by William R. Alger
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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.”
Eyes Quotes Source: Oriental Poetry--Mirtsa Schaffy on Eyes
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“Fill up the goblet and reach to me some!
Drinking makes wise, but dry fasting makes glum.”
Drinking Quotes Source: Oriental Poetry--Wine Song of Kaitmas
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“As two floating planks meet and part on the sea,
O friend! so I met and then drifted from thee.”
Meeting Quotes Source: Oriental Poetry--The Brief Chance Encounter
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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.”
Content Quotes Source: Oriental Poetry--Elbow Room
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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.”
Patience Quotes Source: Oriental Poetry, Mussud's Praise of the Camel
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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?”
Opportunity Quotes Source: Oriental Poetry--Swift Opportunity
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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.”
Blushes Quotes Source: Oriental Poetry--Love Sowing and Reaping Roses
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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.”
Royalty Quotes Source: Oriental Poetry--Elbow Room
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“The moon is a silver pin-head vast,
That holds the heaven's tent-hangings fast.”
Moon Quotes Source: Oriental Poetry--The Use of the Moon
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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.”
Intemperance Quotes Source: Oriental Poetry--The Sober Drunkenness
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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.”
Paradise Quotes Source: Oriental Poetry--The Ninth Paradise
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“We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.”
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“False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.”
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“False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.”
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“Words of love, are works of love.”
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“Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.”
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“We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.”
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“Words of love, are works of love.”
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William R. Alger Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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