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  Speaker 1: Section one of the Poetry of Sadi A selection. This
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  Speaker 1: libyvox dot org. Recording by Alji Pag A selection from
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  Speaker 1: the Poetry of Sadi Shirazi edited by Nathan Haskell Dole
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  Speaker 1: and Belle Walker. Biography of Sadi. Sheikh Sadi the Nightingale
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  Speaker 1: of Shiraz, as Djami poetically calls. This gifted poet was
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  Speaker 1: born at Shiraz, the capital of Persia, near the end
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  Speaker 1: of the twelfth century. All biographers agree that he lived
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  Speaker 1: to be over a hundred years old. Dallutshah even crediting
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  Speaker 1: him with a hundred and twenty years Shaikh Mushli ud Din,
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  Speaker 1: for that is Sadi's real name, was patronized by Atabak
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  Speaker 1: sad Im Zangi, the viceroy of Persia, hence his tak
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  Speaker 1: Kalus Sadi, to which was added as a great honor
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  Speaker 1: the title of Sheikh. At this time, the college at
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  Speaker 1: Baghdad was the great educational center of the East, and
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  Speaker 1: there Sadi was educated. He was of a religious temperament
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  Speaker 1: and is said to have made fourteen pilgrimages to Mecca.
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  Speaker 1: These journeys took place during the second period of his life.
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  Speaker 1: For most writers divide Sadi's life into three parts, the
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  Speaker 1: first devoted to study, the second to travel, and the
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  Speaker 1: third to seclusion. For Atsharaz, he built himself a hermitage,
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  Speaker 1: and there, when over sixty, he devoted himself to his
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  Speaker 1: great literary career. Emerson, commenting on his varied experience, says,
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  Speaker 1: by turns a student, a water carrier, a traveler, a
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  Speaker 1: soldier fighting against the Christians in the Crusades, a pre
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  Speaker 1: sishner employed to dig trenches before Tripoli, and an honored
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  Speaker 1: poet in his protracted old age at home. His varied
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  Speaker 1: and severe experience took away all provincial tone and gave
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  Speaker 1: him a facility for speaking to all conditions. But the
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  Speaker 1: commanding reason of his wider popularity is his deeper sense, which,
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  Speaker 1: in his treatment, expands the local forms and tints to
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  Speaker 1: a cosmopolitan breadth. Through his Persian dialect, he speaks to
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  Speaker 1: all nations, and, like Homer, Shakespeare, Cervantes, and Montaigne, is
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  Speaker 1: perpetually modern. Indeed, he has furnished the originals of a
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  Speaker 1: multitude of tales and proverbs which are current in our
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  Speaker 1: mouths and attributed by us to recent writers, as for example,
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  Speaker 1: the story of Abraham and the fire Worshippers, once claimed
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  Speaker 1: for doctor Franklin, and afterwards traced to Jeremy Taylor, who
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  Speaker 1: probably found it in Oliarius. His works number twenty four.
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  Speaker 1: Among those best known are The Gulistan or Rose Garden,
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  Speaker 1: and the Bustan or the Garden of Perfume. The Ghulistan
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  Speaker 1: is a collection of short, pithy stories based on Sardi's
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  Speaker 1: own varied experiences and red It is said from the
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  Speaker 1: middle of China to the extreme corners of Africa, forming
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  Speaker 1: as it does, the basis of instruction in Mohammedan's schools.
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  Speaker 1: In his preface to The Gulistan, Sadi tells how he
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  Speaker 1: came to write the book. It happened once that I
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  Speaker 1: was benighted in a garden in company with one of
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  Speaker 1: my friends. The spot was delightful, the trees intertwined. He
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  Speaker 1: would have said that the earth was bedecked with glass spangles,
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  Speaker 1: and that the knot of the Pleiades was suspended from
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  Speaker 1: the branch of the vine. A garden with a running
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  Speaker 1: stream and trees from whence birds were warbling melodious strains
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  Speaker 1: that filled with tulips of various hues, These loaded with
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  Speaker 1: fruits of several kinds. Under the shade of its trees,
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  Speaker 1: the zephyr had spread the variegated carpet. In the morning,
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  Speaker 1: when the desire to return home overcame our inclination for remaining,
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  Speaker 1: I saw in his lap a collection of roses, odoriferous herbs,
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  Speaker 1: and hyacinths, which he had intended to carry to town.
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  Speaker 1: I said, you are not ignorant of the fact that
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  Speaker 1: the flower of the garden soon fadeth, and that the
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  Speaker 1: enjoyment of the rose bush is but of short continuance.
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  Speaker 1: And the sages have declared that the heart ought not
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  Speaker 1: to be set upon anything that is transitory. He asked,
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  Speaker 1: what course is then to be pursued, I replied, I
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  Speaker 1: am able to form a book of roses, which will
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  Speaker 1: delight the beholders and gratify those who are present. Whose
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  Speaker 1: leaves the tyrannic arm of the autumnal blasts can never
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  Speaker 1: affect nor injure the blossoms of its spring. What benefit
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  Speaker 1: will you derive from a basket of flowers? Carry a
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  Speaker 1: leaf from my garden. A rose may continue in bloom
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  Speaker 1: for five or six days, but this rose garden will
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  Speaker 1: flourish forever. As soon as I had uttered these words,
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  Speaker 1: he flung the flowers from his lap, and, laying hold
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  Speaker 1: of the skirt of my garment, exclaimed, when the beneficent promise,
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  Speaker 1: they faithfully discharged their engagements. In the course of a
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  Speaker 1: few days, two chapters, one on the comforts of society,
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  Speaker 1: and the other containing rules for conversation, were written out
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  Speaker 1: in my note book in a style that may be
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  Speaker 1: useful to orators and improve the skill of letter writers.
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  Speaker 1: In short, whilst the rose was yet in bloom, the
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  Speaker 1: book entitled The Rose Garden was finished. The Bustan Sadi's
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  Speaker 1: other famous work is also used as a text book
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  Speaker 1: in military and civic examinations, and consists of ten chapters
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  Speaker 1: of didactic verse. The remarkable fact about his writings is
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  Speaker 1: the extremely simple way in which they are expressed. He
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  Speaker 1: took his lessons from the world. Indeed, he went so
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  Speaker 1: far in his zeal to experience all things personally that
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  Speaker 1: he at one time assumed the religion of the worshipers
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  Speaker 1: of Vishnu, a sect for which he really had no sympathy.
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  Speaker 1: The story of this assumed conversion is told in his Bushtan.
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  Speaker 1: Sardi became a confirmed woman hater, owing probably to his
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  Speaker 1: two unfortunate marriages. He himself has given us a graphic
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  Speaker 1: account of his first marriage in the Gulistan, as well
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  Speaker 1: as a most lovely lament on the death of his
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  Speaker 1: only son. His daughter lived to marry the famous Haafez.
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  Speaker 1: Taking his writings as a whole, one may say that
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  Speaker 1: Sardi's creed was cheerfulness and contentment. In fact, he himself
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  Speaker 1: tells us that he was never discontented, but once in
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  Speaker 1: his life when he grumbled because he had no shoes.
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  Speaker 1: But shortly after he met a man who had no feet,
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  Speaker 1: his grumbling ceased. This dervish wit and linguist the Mohammedans
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  Speaker 1: worshiped as a saint, even attributing miracles to him. His
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  Speaker 1: body now lies entombed in the valley of Shiras and
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  Speaker 1: is daily visited by devout pilgrims who save him in
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  Speaker 1: true Oriental fashion, that he perforated with the diamond of
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  Speaker 1: his soul the precious stones of his experiences, and after
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  Speaker 1: gathering them on the string of eloquence, hung them for
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  Speaker 1: a talisman round the neck of posterity. End of section
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  Speaker 1: one Section two of a selection from the poetry of
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  Speaker 1: Sadi Shirazi edited by Nathan Haskell Dole and Belle Walker.
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  Speaker 1: This LibriVox recording is in the public domain Gurlistan or
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  Speaker 1: Rose Garden. Part one preface, The glorious qualities of the
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  Speaker 1: Monarch of the True Faith. May God make clear its demonstration.
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  Speaker 1: Abu Bakir bin Sad bin Zangi. The fair report of Sadi,
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  Speaker 1: which is celebrated by the general voice, and the fame
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  Speaker 1: of his sayings, which has traveled the whole surface of
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  Speaker 1: the earth, and the loved reed which imparts his discourse
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  Speaker 1: and which they devour like honey, and the manner in
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  Speaker 1: which men carry off the scraps of his writing as
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  Speaker 1: though they were gold leaf, are not to be ascribed
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  Speaker 1: to the perfection of his own excellence or eloquence, but
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  Speaker 1: to this that the Lord of the Earth, the axis
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  Speaker 1: the revolution of time, the success of Suliman, the defender
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  Speaker 1: of the people of the True Faith, the puissant King
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  Speaker 1: of Kings, the Great Utabak Musafaradin, Abu Bakir bin Sad Binzangi, God,
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  Speaker 1: God's shadow on Earth. O God approve him and his desires,
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  Speaker 1: has regarded him with extreme condescension, and bestowed on him
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  Speaker 1: lavish commendation, and evinced a sincere regard for him of
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  Speaker 1: a verity from attachment to him. All people, both high
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  Speaker 1: and low, have become favorably inclined toward me. Since men
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  Speaker 1: adopt the sentiments of their kings Quatrain. Since to my
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  Speaker 1: loneliness thou didst with favor turn My track is clearer
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  Speaker 1: than the sun's bright beam. Though in thy servant all
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  Speaker 1: night every fault discern When kings approve in vices, virtues
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  Speaker 1: seem verse twas in the bath, a piece of perfumed
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  Speaker 1: clay came from my loved one's hands to mine. One
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  Speaker 1: day art thou, then musk or ambergris. I said that
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  Speaker 1: by thy scent my soul is ravished. Not so it
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  Speaker 1: answered worthless? The earth was I but long I kept
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  Speaker 1: the roses company, thus near its perfect fragrance. To me
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  Speaker 1: came else. I am but earth the worthless. And the
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  Speaker 1: same story. A king was seated in her vessel with
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  Speaker 1: a Persian slave. The slave had never before beheld the sea,
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  Speaker 1: nor experienced the inconvenience of a ship. He began to
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  Speaker 1: weep and bemoan himself, and a tremor pervaded his frame.
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  Speaker 1: In spite of their endeavors to soothe him, he would
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  Speaker 1: not be quieted. The comfort of the king was disturbed
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  Speaker 1: by him, but they could not devise a remedy. In
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  Speaker 1: the ship, there was a philosopher who said, if you command,
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  Speaker 1: I will silence him. The king answered, it would be
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  Speaker 1: the greatest favor. The philosopher directed them to cast the
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  Speaker 1: slave into the sea. He underwent several submersions, and they
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  Speaker 1: then took him by the hair and dragged him toward
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  Speaker 1: the ship. He clung to the rudder of the vessel
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  Speaker 1: with both hands, and they then pulled him on board again.
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  Speaker 1: When he had come on board, he seated himself in
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  Speaker 1: a corner and kept quiet. The king approved and asked
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  Speaker 1: what was the secret of this expedient. The philosopher replied,
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  Speaker 1: at first he had not tasted the agony of drowning,
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  Speaker 1: and knew not the value of the safety of a vessel.
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  Speaker 1: In the same manner, a person who is overtaken by
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  Speaker 1: calamity learns to value a state of freedom from ill.
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  Speaker 1: Stanza sated, thou wilt my barley loaf repel she whom
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  Speaker 1: I love ill favored seems to thee to Eden's Houri's
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  Speaker 1: erraft would seem hell. Hell's inmates ask, they call it
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  Speaker 1: heavenly couplet. Why does the space TwixT tim who clasps
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  Speaker 1: his love and him whose eyes watch for the door
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  Speaker 1: to move story. In a certain year, I was engaged
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  Speaker 1: in devotion at the term of the prophet Yahiya in
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  Speaker 1: the principal musque of Damascus. It happened that one of
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  Speaker 1: the Arabian princes, who was notorious for his injustice, came
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  Speaker 1: as a pilgrim thither, performed his prayers and asked of
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  Speaker 1: God what he stood in need of couplet. The poor
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  Speaker 1: the rich alike must hear adore the wealthier they their
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  Speaker 1: need is here the more. He then turned toward me
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  Speaker 1: and said, on account of the generous character of dervishes
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  Speaker 1: and the sincerity of their dealings, I ask you to
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  Speaker 1: give me the aid of your spirit, for I stand
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  Speaker 1: in dread of a powerful enemy. I replied, show mercy
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  Speaker 1: to thy weak subjects, that thou mayst not experience annoyance
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  Speaker 1: from a poissant foe verse with the strong arm and
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  Speaker 1: giant grasp tis wrong to crush the feeble, unresisting throng,
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  Speaker 1: who pities not the fallen, Let him fear lest if
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  Speaker 1: he ye fall, no friendly hand be near. Who shows
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  Speaker 1: ill actions and of blessing dreams, foster's vain fantasies and
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  Speaker 1: idly schemes, unstop thy ears. Thy people's wants relieve if
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  Speaker 1: not a day shall come when all their rights receive disticts.
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  Speaker 1: All Adam's race are members of one frame, since all,
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  Speaker 1: at first from the same essence came. When by hard fortune,
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  Speaker 1: one limb is oppressed, the other members lose their wonted rest.
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  Speaker 1: If thou fear'st not for others misery, A son of
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  Speaker 1: Adam is no name for thee story. One of my
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  Speaker 1: companions came to me with complaints of his ill fortune, saying,
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  Speaker 1: I have but little means of subsistence and a large family,
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  Speaker 1: and I cannot support the burden of poverty. It has
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  Speaker 1: frequently entered my head that I would go to another
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  Speaker 1: country in order that live. How I may No one
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  Speaker 1: may know of my welfare or the reverse couplet full
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  Speaker 1: many a starving white has slept unknown for many a
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  Speaker 1: spirit fled that none bemoan. Again, I am in dread
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  Speaker 1: of the rejoicing of my enemies, lest they laugh scoffingly
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  Speaker 1: at me behind my back and impute my exertions in
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  Speaker 1: behalf of my family to a want of humanity. And say, Stanza,
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  Speaker 1: see now that wretch devoid of shame for him fair
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  Speaker 1: fortune's face will smile not, nor has smiled himself. He
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  Speaker 1: pampers in each selfish whim and leaves his hardship to
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  Speaker 1: his wife and child. And I know something, as you
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  Speaker 1: are aware of the sides of accounts. If by your
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  Speaker 1: interest a means of subsistence could be afforded me which
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  Speaker 1: might put me at ease, I should not be able
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  Speaker 1: to express my gratitude sufficiently to the end of my life.
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  Speaker 1: I replied, O, my friend, the king's service has two
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  Speaker 1: sides to it, hope of a livelihood and terror for
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  Speaker 1: one's life. And it is contrary to the opinion of
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  Speaker 1: the wise, through such a hope to expose oneself to
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  Speaker 1: such a fear. Stanza, none in the poor man's hut
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  Speaker 1: demand tax on his garden or his land. Be thou
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  Speaker 1: content with toil and woe, or with thy entrails feed
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  Speaker 1: the crow. He replied these words, that thou hast spoken,
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  Speaker 1: do not apply to my case? Nor hast thou returned
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  Speaker 1: an answer to my question? Hast thou not heard what
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  Speaker 1: they have said, that the hand of everyone who chooses
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  Speaker 1: to act dishonestly trembles in rendering the account couplet. God
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  Speaker 1: favors those who follow the right way from a straight road.
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  Speaker 1: I ne'er saw mortal stray. And the sages have said,
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  Speaker 1: four kinds of persons are in deadly fear of four others,
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  Speaker 1: the brigand of the Sultan, and the thief of the watchman,
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  Speaker 1: and the adulterer of the informer, and the harlot of
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  Speaker 1: the superintendent of police. And what fear have those of
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  Speaker 1: the settling whose accounts are clear? Stanza, wouldst thou confine
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  Speaker 1: thy rival's power to harm thee at discharge? Then, while
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  Speaker 1: thy trust remains be not too free, none shall thee
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  Speaker 1: then alarm? Tis the sword raiment, which to cleanse from
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  Speaker 1: stains is struck on stones, and asks the washer's pains,
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  Speaker 1: I answered, Applicable to thy case is the story of
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  Speaker 1: that fox which people saw running away in violent trepidation.
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  Speaker 1: Some one said to him, what calamity has happened to
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  Speaker 1: cause thee so much alarm, He replied, I have heard
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  Speaker 1: that they are going to impress the camel. They rejoined, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: shatter brios reign. What connection has a camel with thee?
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  Speaker 1: And what resemblance hast thou to it? He answered, peace?
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  Speaker 1: For if the envious should to sow their own ends,
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  Speaker 1: say this is a camel and I should be taken,
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  Speaker 1: who would care about my release so as to inquire
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  Speaker 1: into my condition? And before the antidote is brought from me, rak,
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  Speaker 1: the person who is bitten by the snake may be dead.
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  Speaker 1: And in the same way thou possessest merit and good faith,
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  Speaker 1: and piety and uprightness. But the envious are in ambush,
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  Speaker 1: and the accusers are lurking in corners. If they should
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  Speaker 1: misrepresent thy fair qualities, and thou shouldst incur the King's
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  Speaker 1: displeasure and fall into disgrace, who would have power in
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  Speaker 1: that situation of affairs to speak for thee? I look
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  Speaker 1: upon it as thy best course to secure the kingdom
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  Speaker 1: of contentment, and to abandon the idea of preferment. Since
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  Speaker 1: the wise have said, couplet upon the sea tis true,
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  Speaker 1: is boundless gain, which thou be safe upon the shore remain.
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  Speaker 1: When my friend heard these words, he was displeased, and
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  Speaker 1: his countenance was overcast, and he began to utter words
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  Speaker 1: which bore marks of his vexation, saying, what judgment and
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  Speaker 1: profit and understanding and knowledge is this? And the saying
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  Speaker 1: of the sages has turned out correct in that they
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  Speaker 1: have said, those are useful friends who continue so when
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  Speaker 1: we are in prison, for at our table all our
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  Speaker 1: enemies appear friends, Stanza, think not thy friend, one who,
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  Speaker 1: in fortunes our boast of his friendship and fraternity him.
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  Speaker 1: I call friend who sums up all his power to
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  Speaker 1: aid thee in distress and misery. I saw that he
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  Speaker 1: was troubled, and that my advice was taken in bad part.
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  Speaker 1: I went to the President of Finance, and, in accordance
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  Speaker 1: with our former intimacy, I told him the case, in
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  Speaker 1: consequence of which he appointed my friend to some trifling office.
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  Speaker 1: Some time passed away. They saw the amenity of his
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  Speaker 1: disposition and approved his excellent judgment. His affairs prospered, and
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  Speaker 1: he was appointed to a superior post. And in the
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  Speaker 1: same manner, the star of his prosperity continued to ascend
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  Speaker 1: until he reached the summit of his desires, and became
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  Speaker 1: a confidential servant of his Majesty, the Sultan, and the
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  Speaker 1: pointed at by men's fingers, and one in whom the
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  Speaker 1: ministers of state placed their confidence. I rejoiced at his
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  Speaker 1: secure position, and said, Couplet, have no doubts because of trouble,
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  Speaker 1: Nor be thou discomfited, for the water of life's fountain
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  Speaker 1: springeth from a gloomy bed. Couplet, ah, Ye, brothers of misfortune,
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  Speaker 1: be not ye with grief oppressed. Many are the secret
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  Speaker 1: virtues which, with the all bounteous rest, Couplet sit not sad,
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  Speaker 1: because that time a fitful aspect weareth. Patience is most bitter,
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  Speaker 1: yet most sweet the fruit it beareth. During this interval,
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  Speaker 1: I happen to accompany a number of my friends on
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  Speaker 1: a journey to Hidja's. When I returned from the pilgrimage
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  Speaker 1: to Mecca, he came out two stages to meet me.
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  Speaker 1: I saw his outward appearance was one of distress, and
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  Speaker 1: that he wore the garb of a dervish. I said,
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  Speaker 1: what is thy condition? He replied, just as thou saidst
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  Speaker 1: A party became envious of me and accused me of
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  Speaker 1: disloyal conduct, and the King did not deign to inquire
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  Speaker 1: minutely into the explanation of the circumstances, and my former
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  Speaker 1: companions and even my sincere friends forebore to utter the
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  Speaker 1: truth and forgot their long intimacy Stanza, when one has
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  Speaker 1: fallen from high Heaven's decree, the banded well will trample
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  Speaker 1: on his head, then fall and fold their hands respectfully
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  Speaker 1: when they behold his steps. By fortune, lad in short,
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  Speaker 1: I was subjected to all kinds of tortures till within
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  Speaker 1: this week that the good tidings of the safety the
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  Speaker 1: pilgrims arrived, when they granted me release from grievous durrance
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  Speaker 1: with the confiscation of my hereditary estate. I said at
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  Speaker 1: that time, thou wouldst not receive my suggestion that the
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  Speaker 1: service of the King is like a sea voyage, at
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  Speaker 1: once profitable and fraught with peril, where thou either wilt
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  Speaker 1: acquire a treasure or perish amid the billows couplet, or
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  Speaker 1: with both hands the merchant shall one day embrace the gold,
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  Speaker 1: or by the waves his lifeless form shall on the
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  Speaker 1: strand be rolled. I did not think it right to
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  Speaker 1: lacerate his mental wounds further, or to sprinkle them with salt.
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  Speaker 1: I confined myself to these two couplets, and said Stanza
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  Speaker 1: knewest thou not that thou wouldst see the chains upon
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  Speaker 1: thy feet when a deaf ear, thou turnest on the
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  Speaker 1: councils of the wise. If the torture of the sting,
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  Speaker 1: thou canst not with courage meet place not thy finger
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  Speaker 1: in the hole where the sullen scorpion lies. Story a
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  Speaker 1: person had reached perfection in the art of wrestling. He
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  Speaker 1: knew three hundred sixty precious slights in this art, and
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  Speaker 1: every day he wrestled with a different device. However, his
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  Speaker 1: heart was inclined toward the beauty of one of his pupils.
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  Speaker 1: He taught him three hundred fifty nine throes. All he
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  Speaker 1: knew saved one the teaching which he deferred. The youth
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  Speaker 1: was perfect in skill and strength, and no one could
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  Speaker 1: withstand him, till he at length boasted before the Sultan
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  Speaker 1: that he allowed the superiority of his master over him
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  Speaker 1: only out of respect to his years and what was
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  Speaker 1: due to him as an instructor, and that but for that,
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  Speaker 1: he was not inferior in strength and on a par
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  Speaker 1: with him in skill. The King was displeased at his
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  Speaker 1: breach of respect, and he commanded them to wrestle. A
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  Speaker 1: vast arena was selected. The great nobles, the ministers of
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  Speaker 1: the king attended. The youth entered like a furious elephant,
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  Speaker 1: with a shock that, had his adversary been a mountain
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  Speaker 1: of iron, would have uptorn it from its base. The
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  Speaker 1: master perceived that the young man was his superior in strength.
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  Speaker 1: He fastened on him with that curious grip which he
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  Speaker 1: had kept concealed from him. The youth knew not how
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  Speaker 1: to foil it. The preceptor lifted him with both hands
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  Speaker 1: from the ground and raised him above his head, and
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  Speaker 1: dashed him on the ground. A shout of applause arose
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  Speaker 1: from the multitude. The king commanded them to bestow a
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  Speaker 1: robe of honor and reward on the master, and heaped
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  Speaker 1: reproaches on the youth, saying, thou hast presumed to encounter
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  Speaker 1: him who educated thee, and thou hast failed. He replied, Sire,
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  Speaker 1: my master overcame me, not by strength or power, but
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  Speaker 1: a small point was left in the art of wrestling,
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  Speaker 1: which he withheld from me, And by this trifle he
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  Speaker 1: has to day gotten the victory over me. The preceptor said,
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  Speaker 1: I reserved it for such a day as this, For
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  Speaker 1: the sages have said, give not thy friend so much power,
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  Speaker 1: that if one day he should become a foe, thou
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  Speaker 1: mayst not be able to resist him. Hast thou not
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  Speaker 1: heard what once was said by one who had suffered
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  Speaker 1: wrong from a pupil of his own Stanza on earth?
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  Speaker 1: There is no gratitude I trow, or none perhaps to
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  Speaker 1: use it. Now, pretend none learn of me the scides
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  Speaker 1: of the beaux who make me not their target. In
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  Speaker 1: the end story, the king gave an order to put
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  Speaker 1: an innocent person to death. He said, O, King, for
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  Speaker 1: the anger which thou feelest against me, seek not thine
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  Speaker 1: earn injury. The king asked, how so, he replied, I
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  Speaker 1: shall suffer this pang but for a moment, and the
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  Speaker 1: guilt of it will attach to thee for ever quatrain
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  Speaker 1: circling on life's years have fled as flies the breeze
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  Speaker 1: of morn, sadness and mirth, and foul and fair. For
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  Speaker 1: I have passed away dreams, thou tyrant, thou hast wreaked
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  Speaker 1: on me thy rage and scorn, the burden from my
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  Speaker 1: neck has passed on thine must ever stay. The King
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  Speaker 1: laughed and said, in thy life, thou never saidst a
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  Speaker 1: truer word than this. He then commanded the usual allowance
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  Speaker 1: for descendants of the prophet to be got ready for him. Story.
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  Speaker 1: Abdul Kadir Gillani laid his face on the pebbles in
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  Speaker 1: the sanctuary of the Khabah and said, O, Lord, pardon me,
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  Speaker 1: But if I am deserving of punishment, raise me up
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  Speaker 1: by the resurrection blast, and that I may not be
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  Speaker 1: ashamed in the sight of the Righteous Stanza, humbly in dust,
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  Speaker 1: I bow each day my face with wakening memory. O thou,
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  Speaker 1: whom I forget, not say, dost thou bethink the heir
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  Speaker 1: of me? Story A thief entered the house of a recluse.
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  Speaker 1: However much he searched, he found nothing. He turned back
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  Speaker 1: sadly and in despair, and was observed by the Holy Man,
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  Speaker 1: who cast the blanket on which he slept in the
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  Speaker 1: way of the thief that he might not be disappointed. Stanza,
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  Speaker 1: the men of God's true faith I have heard grieve
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  Speaker 1: not the hearts e'en of their foes. When will his
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  Speaker 1: station be conferred on THEE who dost thy friends oppose.
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  Speaker 1: The friendship of the pure minded, whether in presence or absence,
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  Speaker 1: is not such that they will find fault with THEE
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  Speaker 1: behind thy back, and die for THEE in thy presence
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  Speaker 1: couplet before thee. Like the lamb, they gentle are absent
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  Speaker 1: than savage wolves, more ruthless, far couplet. They who the
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  Speaker 1: faults of others bring to you, be sure they'll bear
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  Speaker 1: to others your faults too. Story. Certain travelers had agreed
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  Speaker 1: to journey together and to share their pains and pleasures.
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  Speaker 1: I wished to join them. They withheld their consent. I said,
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  Speaker 1: it is inconsistent with the benevolent habits of the eminent
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  Speaker 1: to avert the countenance from the society of the lowly,
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  Speaker 1: and to decline to be of service to them. And
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  Speaker 1: I feel in myself such power of exertion and energy,
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  Speaker 1: that in the service of men I should be an
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  Speaker 1: active friend, not await on their minds. Couplet. What though
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  Speaker 1: I am born not in the camel throng, yet will
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  Speaker 1: I strive to bear your loads along? One of them said,
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  Speaker 1: let not thy heart be grieved at the answer, thou
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  Speaker 1: hast received. For within the last few days a thief
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  Speaker 1: came in the guise of a dervish and linked himself
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  Speaker 1: in the chain of our society couplet what no men
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  Speaker 1: of the wearer, though they know the dress full well
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  Speaker 1: the letter writer only can the letters purport tell. Inasmuch
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  Speaker 1: as the state of dervishes is one of security. They
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  Speaker 1: had no suspicion of his meddling propensities, and admitted him
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  Speaker 1: into companionship districts. Rags are the external sign of holiness,
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  Speaker 1: sufficient for men judge by outward dress. Strive to do
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  Speaker 1: well what thou pleasest wear thy head, a crown, thine arm,
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  Speaker 1: a flag may bear. Virtue lies not in sackcloth, coarse
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  Speaker 1: and sad, be purely pious, and in saturn clad. True
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  Speaker 1: holiness consists in quitting wes the world and lust. Not dress.
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  Speaker 1: Let this suffice, but valiant men their breasts with iron
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: plate weapons of war ill suit the effeminate. In short,
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  Speaker 1: one day we had journeyed till dusk and slept for
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  Speaker 1: the night under a castle's walls. The graceless thief took
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: up the water pot of one of his comrades, saying
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  Speaker 1: that he was going for a necessary purpose, and went
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  Speaker 1: in truth to plunder couplet he'd fame with tattered garment
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  Speaker 1: for a dervish pass and makes the carba's pall the
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  Speaker 1: housings of an ass As soon as he had got
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  Speaker 1: out of the sight of the dervishes, he scowed a
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  Speaker 1: bastion and stole a casket. Before the day dawned, that
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: dark hearted one had got to a considerable distance, and
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: his innocent companions were still asleep. In the morning, they
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: carried them all to the fortress and imprisoned them. From
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: that day we have abdured society and kept to the
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  Speaker 1: path of retirement, For in solitude there is safety. Stanza.
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  Speaker 1: When but one member of a tribe has done a
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  Speaker 1: foolish act, all bear alike disgrace. Cease thou, how and
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  Speaker 1: the meed one ox alone will lead astray the whole
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  Speaker 1: herd of a place. I said, I thank God, may
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  Speaker 1: he be honored and glorified that I have not remained
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  Speaker 1: excluded from the beneficial influences of the dervishes, although I
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  Speaker 1: have been deprived of their society, and I have derived
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  Speaker 1: profit from this story. And this advice will be useful
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  Speaker 1: to such as I am through the whole of life
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: disticts be there but one rough person in their train
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  Speaker 1: for his misdeeds. The wise will suffer pain. Should you
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: assist them with rose water fill, a dog dropped in
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: it would defil it still story religious reclues became the
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  Speaker 1: guest of a king. When they sat down to their meals,
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  Speaker 1: he ate less than his wont and when they rose
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  Speaker 1: up to pray, he prayed longer than he was accustomed to,
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  Speaker 1: that they might have a greater opinion of his piety.
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  Speaker 1: Couplet o arab much I fear thou at Mecca's shrine
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  Speaker 1: wilt never be for the road thou art going is
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  Speaker 1: the road to Tartary. When he returned his own abode,
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  Speaker 1: he ordered the cloth to be laid that they might eat.
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  Speaker 1: He had a son possessed of a ready wit, who said, oh,
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: my father, didst thou eat nothing at the entertainment of
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: the Sultan. He replied, I ate nothing in their sight
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  Speaker 1: to serve a purpose. The son rejoined, repeat thy prayers again,
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  Speaker 1: and make up for their omission, since thou hast done
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: nothing that can serve any purpose. Stanza thy merits in
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  Speaker 1: thy palm. Thou dost display thy faults beneath thy arm
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  Speaker 1: from sight withhold what wilt thou purchase vain one in
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  Speaker 1: that day, the day of anguish with thy feigned gold story.
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  Speaker 1: I remember that in the time of my childhood I
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  Speaker 1: was devout and in the habit of keeping vigils, and
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  Speaker 1: eager to practice mortification and austerities. One night I sat
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  Speaker 1: up in attendance on my father and did not close
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  Speaker 1: my eyes the whole night, and held the precious Kordan
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: in my lap, while a people around me slept. I
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: said to my father, not one of these lifts up
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  Speaker 1: his head to perform a prayer. They are so profoundly
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: asleep that you would say they were dead. He replied,
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  Speaker 1: Life of thy father, it were better if thou too
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: were to sleep, rather than thou shouldst be backbiting people
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: Stanza naught but themselves con vain pretender's mark for conceits
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: curtain intercepts their view. Did God illum that which in
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  Speaker 1: them is dark naught than themselves would wear a darker hue?
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  Speaker 1: Story in a certain assembly, they are extolling a person
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  Speaker 1: of eminence and going to an extreme in praising his
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  Speaker 1: excellent qualities. He raised his head and said, I am
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  Speaker 1: that which I know myself to be couplet Thou who
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  Speaker 1: wouldst sum my virtues up enough thou find in outward
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  Speaker 1: semblance to my secret failings blind Stanza. My person in
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  Speaker 1: men's eyes is fair to view, but for my inward
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: faults shame bows my head. The peacock, lauded for his
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: brilliant hue, is by his ugly feet discomfited story. They
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: asked Lucman, of whom didst thou learn manners? He replied
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: from the unmannerly whatever I saw them do, which I
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  Speaker 1: disapproved of, that I abstained from doing. Stanza. Not e'en
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  Speaker 1: in jest a playful word is said, but to the
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  Speaker 1: wise twill prove a fruitful theme. Two fools. A hundred
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  Speaker 1: chapters may be read of grave import to them. They
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: are jesting seem story. They asked one of the shakes
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  Speaker 1: of Damascus, what is the true state of Sufiism? He replied, formerly,
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  Speaker 1: thou are a sect outwardly disturbed but inwardly collected, And
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  Speaker 1: at this day they are a tribe outwardly collected and
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: inwardly disturbed. Stanza. While ever rose from place to place,
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  Speaker 1: thy heart no peacefulness in solitude thout see hast thou
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: estates wealth rank, the trade is mart be thy heart gods.
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  Speaker 1: This solitude may be end of Part one of Ghulistan
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  Speaker 1: or Rosegarden, Section three of selection from the Poetry of
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: Sadi Shirazi, edited by Nathan Haskell Dole and Belle Walker.
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  Speaker 1: This liveryvox recording is in the public domain. Ghulistan or
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  Speaker 1: Rose Garden Part two story. A king had reached the
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  Speaker 1: close of his life and had no heir to succeed him.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: He made a will that they should place the royal
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: crown on the head of the first person who might
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: enter the gates of the city in the morning, and
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: should confide the government to him. It happened that the
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: first person who entered the city gate was a beggar, who,
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: throughout his whole life, had collected scrap after scrap, and
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: his own rag upon rag. The pillars of the state
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: and ministers of the late king executed his will and
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: bestowed on him the country and the treasure. The dervish
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: carried on the government for a time, when some of
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: the great nobles turned their necks from obeying him, and
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: the princes of the surrounding countries rose up on every
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  Speaker 1: side to oppose him, and arrayed their armies against him.
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  Speaker 1: In short, his troops and his subjects were thrown into confusion,
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  Speaker 1: and a portion of his territory departed from his possession.
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: The Dervish was in a state of dejection at this circumstance,
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: when one of his old friends, who was intimate with
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: him in the time of his poverty, returned from a journey, and,
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: finding him in this exalted position, said, thanks be to God,
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: may he be honored and glorified. That thy lofty destiny
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: has aided thee, and thy auspicious fortune has led thee on,
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: so that thy rose has come forth from the thought,
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  Speaker 1: and the thorn from thy foot. And thou hast arrived
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: at this rank. Surely with calamity comes rejoicing couplet. The
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: bud now blossoms, withered, now is found, the tree now naked,
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  Speaker 1: now with leaves is crowned. He replied, Oh, brother, condole
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  Speaker 1: with me, for there is no room for felicitation. When
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: thou sawest me, I was distressed for bread, and now
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: I have the troubles of a world upon me. Distics
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  Speaker 1: have we no worldly gear tis grief and pain have
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: we It? Then, its charms our feet in chain? Can
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: we than this a plague, more troublous find, which absent
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: present still afflicts the mind? Stanza, wouldst thou be rich,
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: seek but content to gain? For this a treasure is
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: that ne'er will harm. If in thy lap some divays
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: riches reign, let not thy heart, with gratitude grow warm.
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  Speaker 1: For by the wisest I have often been told, the
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: poor man's patience better is than gold couplet a locust's leg.
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  Speaker 1: The poor ant's gift is more than the wild ass
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  Speaker 1: dressed whole from Bahram's store. Footnote. Bahram, the sixth of
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: that name was a king of Persia, called Gore from
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: his fondness for hunting the wild ass. This couplet is
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  Speaker 1: the sort of Oriental version of the widow's might end
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  Speaker 1: footnote story. Having become weary of the society of my
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: friends at Damascus, I set out for the wilderness of
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: Jerusalem and associated with the brutes until I was made
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: prisoner by the Franks, who set me to work along
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: with Jews at digging in the foss of Tripolis, till
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: one of the principal men of Aleppo. But Queen whom
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: and myself. A former intimacy had subsisted passed that way
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: and recognized me and said, what state is this and
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: how are you living? I replied Stanza, from men to
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  Speaker 1: mountain and to wilde, I fled myself to heavenly converse,
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  Speaker 1: to betake conjecture. Now my state that in a shed
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: of savages, I must my dwelling make couplet. Better to
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: live in change with those we love than with the
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: strange bid flowerets gay to move. He took compassion on
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: my state, and with ten dinars redeemed me from the
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: bondage of the Franks, and took me along with him
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: to Aleppo. He had a daughter, whom he united to
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: me in the marriage, not with a portion of a
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: hundred dinars. As time went on, the girl turned out
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: of a bad temper, quarrelsome and unruly. She began to
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: give a loose to her tongue, and to disturb my happiness.
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: As they have said, disticks, in a good man's house,
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: an evil wife is his hell above in this present
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: life from a vixen wife. Protect us well, savor O
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  Speaker 1: God from the pains of hell. At length she gave
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  Speaker 1: vent to reproaches and said, art thou not he whom
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: my father purchased from the Frank's prison for ten dinars.
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: I replied, yes, he redeemed me with ten dinars and
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: sold me into thy hands for a hundred disticks. I've
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: heard that once a man of high degree from a
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: wolf's teeth and claws a lamb set free. That night
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: its throaty severed with a knife when thus complained the
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: lamb's departing life. Thou from a wolf didst save me then?
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: But now too plainly I perceive the wolf art thou story.
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: One of the Syrian recluses had for years work worshiped
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: in the desert and sustained life by feeding on the
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: leaves of trees. The king of that region made a
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: pilgrimage to visit him, and said, if thou thinkest fit,
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  Speaker 1: I will prepare a place for thee in the city,
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  Speaker 1: that thou mayest have greater conveniences for devotion than here,
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: and that others may be benefited by the blessing of
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: thy prayers and may imitate thy virtuous acts. The devotee
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: did not assent to these words. The noble said to
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: oblige the king the proper course is for thee to
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: come into the city for a few days and learn
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: the nature of the place, after which, if the serenity
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: of thy precious time suffers disturbance from the society of others,
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: thou wilt be still free to choose. They relate that
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: the devotee entered the city, and that they prepared for
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: him the garden of the king's own palace, a place
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: the lightsome to the mind and suited to tranquilize the spirit.
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: Distics like beauty's cheek, bright shone, its roses, red, its hyacinths,
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: like fair one's ringlets spread seemed to babes, which from
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  Speaker 1: their mother's milk ne'er drew in winter's cold, so shrinkingly
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: they grew couplet, and the branches on them grew pomegranate flowers,
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: like fire, suspended there mid verdant bowers. The king forthwith
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: despatched a beautiful damsel to him verse, a young moon
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: that in saints might lead astray, angel in form a
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: peacock in display. When once beheld, not hermits could retain
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: their holy state, nor undisturbed, remain in like manner. After her.
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: The King sent a slave, a youth of rare beauty
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: and of graceful proportions, Stanza. Round him, who seems cupbearer,
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: people sink of thirst, they die. He gives them not
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: to drink. The eyes that see him, still unsated, crave
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: as drops. He thirsts amid the euphrates wave. The Holy
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: Man began to feed on dainties and wear soft raiment,
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: and to find gratification and enjoyment in fruits and perfumes,
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: as well as to survey the beauty of the youth
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: and of the damsel. And the wise have said, the
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: ringlets of the beautiful are the fetters of reason, and
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: a snare to the bird of intelligence, couplet in thy
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: behoof my heart, my faith, my intellect, I vow in
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: truth a subtle bird am I the snare? This day
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: art thou. In short, the bliss of his tranquil state
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: began to decline, As they have said, Stanza, all that exist, disciples, doctors, saints,
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: the pure and eloquent alike, all fail when one this
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: world's base gear. Their minds at taints as flies, their
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: legs in honey vainly trail. At length. The king felt
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: a desire to visit him. He found the recluse, altered
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  Speaker 1: in appearance from what he was before, with a florid
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  Speaker 1: complexion and waxen fat pillowed on a cushion of brocade,
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  Speaker 1: and the fairy faced slaves standing at his head with
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  Speaker 1: a fan of peacock's feathers. The monarch was pleased in
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  Speaker 1: his felicitous state, and a conversation turned on the variety
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  Speaker 1: of subjects, till at the close of it the king said,
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  Speaker 1: of all the people in the world, I value these
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  Speaker 1: two sorts most, the learned and the devout. A philosophical
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  Speaker 1: and experienced Vazir was present. He said, O, King, friendship
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  Speaker 1: requires that thou shouldst do good to both these two
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  Speaker 1: orders of men. To the wise, give gold that they
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  Speaker 1: may study the more, and to the devout, give nothing
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  Speaker 1: that they may remain devout. Couplet to the devout, nor
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  Speaker 1: pence nor gold. Divide. If one receive it, seek another guide. Stanza,
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  Speaker 1: kind manners and a heart on God bestow'd make up
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  Speaker 1: the saint, without arms, begged or bread. The piety bequeaths
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  Speaker 1: what though no load of turquoise rings on beauty's fingers
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  Speaker 1: shed their ray nor from her ear. The shimmering gem
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  Speaker 1: depends tis beauty still and needs not them. Stanza O,
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  Speaker 1: gentle dervish, blest with mind serene, thou must no need
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  Speaker 1: of arms or hermit's fair lady a beauteous face and
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  Speaker 1: graceful mien. Thou well the turquoise ring and gourds canst
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  Speaker 1: its spare couplet. Seek I for goods which not to
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  Speaker 1: me belong. Then if men call me worldly, they are
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  Speaker 1: not wrong. Story in conformity with the preceding story. An
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  Speaker 1: affair of importance occurred to the king. He said, if
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  Speaker 1: the termination of this matter be in accordance with my wishes,
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  Speaker 1: I will distribute so many did arms to holy men.
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  Speaker 1: When his desire was accomplished, he became incumbent on him
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  Speaker 1: to fulfill his vow according to the conditions, he gave
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  Speaker 1: a bag of did arms to one of his favorite
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  Speaker 1: servants and told him to distribute them among devout personages.
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  Speaker 1: They say that the servant was shrewd and intelligent. He
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  Speaker 1: went about the whole day and returned at night, and,
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  Speaker 1: kissing the did arms, laid them before the king, saying,
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  Speaker 1: however much I searched for the holy men, I could
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  Speaker 1: not find them. The king replied, what tale is this,
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  Speaker 1: I know that in the city there are four hundred saints.
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  Speaker 1: He answered, O, Lord of the Earth, the devout accept
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  Speaker 1: them not, and he who accepts them is not devout.
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  Speaker 1: The king laft and said to his courtiers, strong as
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  Speaker 1: my good intentions are toward this body of godly men,
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  Speaker 1: and much as I wish to express my favor toward them,
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  Speaker 1: I am thwarted by proportionate enmity and rejection of them
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  Speaker 1: on the part of this saucy fellow. And he has
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  Speaker 1: reason on his side. Couplet. When holy men accept of
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  Speaker 1: coin from thee, leave them and seek some better devotee. Story.
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  Speaker 1: They asked a profoundly learned man his opinion as to
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  Speaker 1: pious bequests. He said, if the allowance is received in
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  Speaker 1: order to tranquilize the mind and obtain more leisure for devotion,
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  Speaker 1: it is lawful. But when people congregate for the sake
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  Speaker 1: of the endowment, it is unlawful. Couplet. For sacred leisure,
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  Speaker 1: saints receive their bread, not to gain food that ease
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  Speaker 1: is furnished. Story. A disciple said to his spiritual guide,
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  Speaker 1: what shall I do? For I am harassed by people
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  Speaker 1: through the frequency of their visits to me and my
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  Speaker 1: precious moments are disturbed by their coming and going. He replied,
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  Speaker 1: lend to all who are poor, and demand alone of
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  Speaker 1: all who are rich, and they will not come about
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  Speaker 1: thee again. Couplet. If Islam's van a beggar should precede
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  Speaker 1: to China, infidels would fly his greed. Story. A band
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  Speaker 1: of dissolute fellows came to find fault with a dervish
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  Speaker 1: and used unwarrantable language and wounded his feelings. He carried
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  Speaker 1: his complaint before the chief of his order and said,
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  Speaker 1: I have undergone such and such. His chief replied, O, son,
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  Speaker 1: the patched robe of the dervishes is the garment of resignation.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone who in this garb endures not disappointment patiently is
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: a pretender, and it is unlawful for him to wear
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  Speaker 1: the robe of the dervish. Couplet. A stone mays not
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  Speaker 1: great rivers turbot grow. When saints are vex'd their shallowness,
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  Speaker 1: they show Stanza, hast thou been injured? Suffer it and
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  Speaker 1: clear thyself from guilt in pardoning others, Sin, O brother,
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  Speaker 1: Since the end of all things here is into dust
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  Speaker 1: to molder, be thou in like humble mold ere. Yet
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  Speaker 1: the change begin story in verse list to my tail
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  Speaker 1: in Bagdad once dispute between a flag and curtain rose
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  Speaker 1: its suit, the banner dusty and with toil oppressed, urged,
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  Speaker 1: and the curtain angry. Thus address'd myself and thou were
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: comrades at one school. Both now are slaves neath the
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  Speaker 1: same monarch's rule. I in his service ne'er have rested still,
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  Speaker 1: whate'er the time I journey at his will? My foot
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  Speaker 1: is ever foremost in emprise. Then why thou more honor
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  Speaker 1: in men's eyes with moon faced slaves, Thy moments pass
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  Speaker 1: away with jasmine scented girls. Thou makest thy stay. I
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  Speaker 1: lie neglected, still in servile hands, toss'd by the winds,
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  Speaker 1: my head, my feet in bands. The threshold is my couch,
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  Speaker 1: the curtain said, And ne'er like thee to heaven, raise
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  Speaker 1: eye my head. He who exalts his neck with vain
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  Speaker 1: conceit hurls himself headlong from his boasted seat. Story a
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  Speaker 1: pious mans er an athlete who is exasperated and infuriated.
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  Speaker 1: Foaming at the mouth, He said, what is the matter
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  Speaker 1: with this man? Some one answered, such a one has
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  Speaker 1: abused him, What said the holy man? This contemptible fellow
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  Speaker 1: can lift a stone of a thousand man's weight, it
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  Speaker 1: has not the power to support a word. Stanza, boast
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  Speaker 1: not thy strength or manhood, while thy heart is swayed
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  Speaker 1: by impulse base. If man, thou art or woman matters nought,
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  Speaker 1: but rather aim or mouths to sweeten. Thus deserve the
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  Speaker 1: name of man for manliness. Doth not consist in stopping
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  Speaker 1: others voices with thy fist. Stanza. Though one could brain
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  Speaker 1: an elephant, yet he is not a man without humanity
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  Speaker 1: in earth. The source of Adam's sons began, art thou
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  Speaker 1: not humble? Then thou art not man story. A king
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  Speaker 1: was regarding a company of dervish's contemptuously, one of them
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  Speaker 1: acute enough to divine his feelings, said O King, We
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  Speaker 1: in this world are inferior to THEE in military pomp,
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: but enjoy more pleasure, and are equal with THEE in death,
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  Speaker 1: and superior to THEE in the day of resurrection. Distics,
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  Speaker 1: the conqueror may in every wish succeed of bread the
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: dervish daily stands. Indeed, But in that hour when both
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: return to clay nought, but their winding sheet they take away.
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  Speaker 1: When man makes up his loath this realm to leave,
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  Speaker 1: the beggar finds less cause than kings to grieve. The
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  Speaker 1: outward mark of a dervish is a patched garment and
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  Speaker 1: shaven head, but his essential qualities are a living heart
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  Speaker 1: and mortified passions. Stanza not at strife's door, sits he
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  Speaker 1: when thwarted, ne'er starts up to contest all unmoved his soul.
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  Speaker 1: He is no saint who from the path would stir,
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  Speaker 1: though a huge stone should from a mountain roll. The
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  Speaker 1: dervish's course of life is spent in commemorating and thanking,
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  Speaker 1: and serving and obeying God, and in beneficence and contentment,
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: and in the acknowledgment of one God, and in reliance
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  Speaker 1: on Him, and in resignation and patience. Every One who
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: is endued with these qualities is in fact a dervish,
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  Speaker 1: though dressed in a tunic, but a babbler who neglects
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  Speaker 1: prayer and is given to sensuality and the gratification of
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  Speaker 1: his appetite, who spends his days till nightfall in the
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  Speaker 1: pursuit of licentiousness, and passes his night till day returns
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  Speaker 1: in careless slumber, eats whatever is set before him, and says,
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  Speaker 1: whatever comes uppermost is a profligate, though he wear the
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  Speaker 1: habit of a dervish. Stanza O, thou, whose outer a
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  Speaker 1: robe is falsehood pride, while inwardly thou art to virtue dead.
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  Speaker 1: Thy curtain of seven colors put aside, while the inner
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: house with mats is poorly spread. Footnote. It is customary
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  Speaker 1: in Persia to have a curtain of the portal of
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  Speaker 1: the house, the richness of which depends on the circumstances
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: of the owner. End footnote. Story in verse. I saw
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  Speaker 1: some handfuls of the rose in bloom, with bands of
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: grass suspended from a dome. I said, what means is
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: worthless grass? That it should in the roses fairy circle sit?
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: Then wept the grass, and said, be still and know
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  Speaker 1: the kind their old associates. Ne'er forego mine is no beauty,
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  Speaker 1: hw or fragrance. True, But in the garden of the
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: Lord I grew his ancient servant eye reared by his
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  Speaker 1: bounty from the dust. What e'er I quality all in
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: his favoring mercy trust. No stock of worth is mine,
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: nor fund of worship. Yet he will a means of
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: help divine. When aid is past, he'll save me still.
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: Those who have power to free, let their old slaves
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: in freedom live Thou, glorious majesty, Me too, thy ancient slave,
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: forgive Sadi moved Thou to Resignation's shrine. O man of God,
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: the path of God be thine. Hapless is he who
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  Speaker 1: from mishaven turns or doors shall spurn him who this
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  Speaker 1: portal spurns. Story. I never complained of the vicissitudes of fortune,
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  Speaker 1: nor suffered my face to be overcast at the revolution
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  Speaker 1: of the heavens, except once, when my feet were bare
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: and I had not the means of obtaining shoes. I
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  Speaker 1: came to the chief mosque of Kufa in a state
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: of much dejection, and saw there a man who had
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: no feet. I returned thanks to God and acknowledged his mercies,
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  Speaker 1: and endured my want of shoes with patience, and exclaimed
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: Stanza roast fowl to him that sated will seem less
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: upon the board than leaves of garden crests. While in
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: the sight of helpless poverty, boiled turnip will a roasted
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: pullet be story A merchant met with the loss of
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  Speaker 1: a thousand dinars, and said to his son, thou must
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: not tell any one of this matter. The son replied, O, Father,
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  Speaker 1: it is thy command. I will not tell. Acquake me. However,
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: with the advantage to be derived from keeping the affair secret.
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: The father answered, in order that we may not have
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: two misfortunes to encounter, first the loss of our money
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: and secondly the malignant rejoicings of our neighbors. Couplet, do
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: not defers thy sufferings impart lest while they seem to grieve,
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: they joy at heart. Story an intelligent young man who
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: possessed an ample stock of admirable accomplishments and a rare intellect,
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: notwithstanding uttered not a word whenever he was seated in
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: the company of the wise. At length, his father said, O, son,
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: why dost not thou also say something of what thou knowest?
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: He replied, I fear lest they should ask me something
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: of which I am ignorant, and I should bring on
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: myself disgrace. Stanza. One day, as Soufi hast Thou heard
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: it told, by chance, was hammering nails into his shoe,
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  Speaker 1: then of his sleeve. An officer caught hold and said,
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: come thou and shoe my charger too. Couplet art silent,
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: none can meddle with thee. When thou once hast spoken,
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: thou must prove it. Then, story a man with a
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: harsh voice was reading a Kordan in a loud tone.
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: A sage passed by and asked, what is thy monthly stipend?
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: He replied nothing. Wherefore, then asked the sage, dost thou
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: give thyself this trouble? He replied, I read for the
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: sake of God. Then said, this sage, for God's sake,
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: read not couplet. If in this fashion the Kuran you
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: read your mar the loveliness of Islam's creed story, they
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: asked Hassan Maimandi, how is it that although Sultan Mahmud
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: has so many handsome slaves, every one of whom is
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: the wonder of the world and the marble of the age,
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: he has not such a regard or affection for any
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: one as for Ayaz, who is not remarkable for beauty.
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: He replied, whatever pleases the heart appears fair to the
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: eye disticts the man for whom the Sultan shows esteem.
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: Though bad in every act, will virtuous seem, but whom
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: the monarch pleases to reject, none of his retinue will
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: err affect Stanza. When with antipathy we aye a man
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: we see in Joseph's beauty, want of grace and prepossessed.
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: Should we a demon scan, he'd seem a cherub with
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: an angel's face. Story they shut up a parrot in
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: a cage with a crow. The parrot was distressed at
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: the ugly appearance of the other, and said, what hateful
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: form is this? And detested shape and accursed face and
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: unpolish'd manners, O crow of the desert? Would that between
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: me and thee were the space TwixT east and west Stanza.
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: Should one, at dawn, arising thy face see twould chased
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: to twilight gloom that morning's mirth. Such wretch as thou art,
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: should thy comrade be? But where could such a one
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: be found on earth? But still more strangely, the crow
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: too was harassed to death by the society of the parrot,
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: and was utterly chagrined by it, reciting a deprecatory formula,
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: there is no power nor strength but in God. It
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: complained of its fate, and rubbing one upon the other,
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: the hands of vexation, It said, what evil feet is this?
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: And unlucky destiny and fickleness of fortune? It would have
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: been commensurate with my deserts to have walked proudly along
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: with another crow on the wall of a garden couplet.
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: Twill for a prison to the good suffice to herd
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: them with the worthless sons of vice? What crime have
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: I committed in punishment for which my fate has involved
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: in such a calamity and imprisoned me with a conceited
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: fool like this at once worthless and fatuous Stanza? Or
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: would that war with loathing fly which bore impressed thy effigy,
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: and if thy lot in Eden fell, all others would
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: make choice of hell. I have brought this example to
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: show that how strong soever the disgust wise man may
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: feel for a fool. A fool regards with a hundred
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: times more aversion a wise man couplet. A pious man,
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: mid dance and song, was seated with the gay one
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: of Bawk's beauty saw him there and marked the mirth decay.
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: Do we then weary thee? He said, at least uncloud
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: thy brow, for we too feel thy presence here is bitterness,
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: yeow quatrain. This social band, like roses, ears and lilies,
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: joined in one and mid them Thou a withered stick
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: up springest all alone, like winter's cruel cold art thou,
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: or like an adverse blast, Thou sittest there, like fallen snow,
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: ice bound and frozen fast. Story. A man had a
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: beautiful wife who died, and his wife's mother, at a
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: crepit old woman, on account of the marriage settlement, took
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: up her abode and fixed herself in his house. The
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: man was vexed to death by her propinquity, yet he
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: did not see how to get rid of her by
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: reason of the settlement. Some of his friends came to
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: inquire after him, and one of them said, how dost
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: thou bear the loss of thy beloved one? He replied,
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: the not seeing my wife is not so intolerable to
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: me as the seeing her mother. Footnote. As he could
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: not pay what he had covenanted to pay when he
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: married his wife's relations, I dignified themselves by saddling him
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: with the old lady, his wife's mother. End footnote. Disticks
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: The tree has lost its roses, but retains its thorn.
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: The treasures gone, the snake remains. Tis better on the
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: land's point fixed to see one's eye than to behold
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: an enemy. Tis well a thousand friendships to a raw
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: could we thereby avoid our firmin's face? Footnote It is
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: a popular Oriental notion that treasures are guarded by serpents.
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: End footnote story. I remember that in my youth I
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: was passing along a street when I beheld a moon
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: faced beauty. The season was that of the month of July,
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: when the fierce heat dried up the moisture of the mouth,
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: and the scorching wind consumed the marrow of the bones.
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: Through the weakness of human nature, I was unable to
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: support the power of the sun, and involuntarily took shorter
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: under the shade of a wall, waiting to see if
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: anyone would relieve me from the pain I suffered, owing
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: to the ardor of the sun's rays, and cool my
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: flame with water. All of a sudden, from the dark
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: portico of a house, I beheld a bright form appeer
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: of such beauty that the tongue of eloquence would fail
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: in narrating her charm. She came forth as moun, succeeding
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: a dark night, or as the waters of life issuing
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: from the gloom. She held in her hand a cup
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: of snow water, in which she had mixed sugar and
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: the juice of the grape. I know not whether she
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: had perfumed it with her own roses, or distilled into
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: it some drops from the bloom of her countenance. In short,
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: I took the cup from her fair hand, and drained
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: its contents, and received new life. The thirst of my
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: heart cannot be slaked with a drop of water, Nor
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: if I should drink rivers, would it be lessened? Stanza,
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: most blessed that happy one whose gaze intense rests on
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: such face At each success of morn, the drunk with
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: wine at midnight, may his sense regain. But not till
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: the last day shall dawn, will love's intoxication reach its born.
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: Story they told to one of the the Arabian kings,
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: the story of Lalli and mudj Nun, and of the
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: insanity which happened to him, so that, although possessed of
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: high qualities and perfect eloquence, he betook himself to the
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: desert and abandoned the reigns of choice, after commanding them
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: to bring him into his presence. The king began to
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: rebuke him, saying, what defect hast thou seen in the
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: nobleness of man's nature, That thou hast taken up the
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: habits of an animal and bidden adieu to the happiness
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: of human society. Mud Nun wept and said, verse, often
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: my friends reproached me for my love. The day will
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: come they'll see her and approve. Stanza would that those
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: who seek to blame me, could thy face, O fairest
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: see theirs would then the loss and shame be while
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: amazed intent on thee, they would wound their hands, while
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: they careless with the orange play, that the truth of
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: the reality might testify to the appearance I claim for her.
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: The king was inspired with a desire to behold her beauty,
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  Speaker 1: in order to know what sort of person it was
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  Speaker 1: who was the cause of such mischief. He commanded, and
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  Speaker 1: they sought for her, and, searching through the Arab families,
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  Speaker 1: found her and brought her before the king in the
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  Speaker 1: court of the royal pavilion. The king surveyed her countenance
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  Speaker 1: and beheld a person of a dark complexion and weak form.
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  Speaker 1: She appeared to him so contemptible that he thought the
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  Speaker 1: meanest of the servants of his Harim, superior to her
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  Speaker 1: in beauty and grace. Mud Nun acutely discerned his thoughts,
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  Speaker 1: and said, O, King, it is requisite to survey the
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  Speaker 1: beauty of Laylly from a window of the eye of
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  Speaker 1: mud Nun, in order that the mystery of the spectacle
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  Speaker 1: may be revealed to you. Disticts, unmoved with pity, Thou
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  Speaker 1: me hearest, complain, I need a comrade who can share
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  Speaker 1: my pain the livelong day. I then my woes recite
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  Speaker 1: wood with wood, join'd will ever burn more bright? Verse?
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  Speaker 1: What past within the hearing of the grove? O forest leaves?
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  Speaker 1: Did ye but learn ye'd morn with me my friends?
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  Speaker 1: Tell him whom love hath spared? I would he did
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  Speaker 1: but burn with lover's flames? Heed then my grief discern Verse.
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  Speaker 1: Scars may be laughed at by the sound, But to
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  Speaker 1: a fellow's sufferer, reveal thy anguish of the hornet's wound?
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  Speaker 1: What reck they who did never feel its sting? Till
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  Speaker 1: fortune shall bring round thy woes to thee They will
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  Speaker 1: but seem the weak illusions of a dream. Do not
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  Speaker 1: my sufferings confound with those of others? Hence thou deem
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  Speaker 1: one holding salt can tell the pain of him who
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  Speaker 1: has so rubb'd upon his wounded limb. Story in verse,
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  Speaker 1: a gallant youth there was, and fair pledg'd to a
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  Speaker 1: maid beyond compare they on the sea, as poets tell,
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  Speaker 1: Together in a whirlpool fell the boatman came the youth
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  Speaker 1: to save, to snatch him from his watery grave. But
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  Speaker 1: bid those billows of despair. He cried, my love, My
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  Speaker 1: love is there, Save her? O save, he said, and died.
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  Speaker 1: But with his parting breath he cried not from that
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  Speaker 1: wretch love story here who love forgets when perils near? Together?
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  Speaker 1: Thus these lovers died be told by him whom love
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  Speaker 1: has tried Forasadi knows each whim and freak of love
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  Speaker 1: as well its ways can speak. As Bagda's dwellers Arabic
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  Speaker 1: hast thou a mistress, her then prize and on all others.
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  Speaker 1: Close the eyes good Mudjnun and his lay back return
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  Speaker 1: they might love. Story from this volume learn end of
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  Speaker 1: section three Section four of Selection from the Poetry of
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  Speaker 1: Sadi Shirazi, edited by Nathan Haskell Doll and Belle Walker.
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  Speaker 1: This libbox recording is in the public domain. Gulistan or
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  Speaker 1: Rose Garden, Part three. Story. A king handed over his
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  Speaker 1: son to a teacher and said, this is my son.
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  Speaker 1: Educate him as one of thine own sons. The preceptor
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: spent some years in endeavoring to teach him, without success,
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  Speaker 1: while his own sons were made perfect in learning and eloquence.
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  Speaker 1: The king took the preceptor to task and said, thou
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  Speaker 1: hast acted contrary to thy agreement, and hast not been
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  Speaker 1: faithful to thy promise. He replied, O, King, education is
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  Speaker 1: the same, but capacities differ. Stanza. Silver and gold tis
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  Speaker 1: true in stones are found it not all stones. The
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  Speaker 1: precious metals bear Canopus shines to Earth's most distant bound,
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  Speaker 1: but here gives leather scented leather. There story. I have
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  Speaker 1: heard of an old doctor who said to a pupil,
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 1: if the minds of the children of men were as
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  Speaker 1: much fixed on the giver of subsistence as they are
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  Speaker 1: on the subsistence itself, thoy would rise above the angels. Stanza,
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  Speaker 1: thou wast by God, then not forgotten. When thou wast
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  Speaker 1: a seed thy nature. In suspense, he gave thee soul
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  Speaker 1: and reason, wisdom, ken beauty, and speak each reflection judgment sense,
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  Speaker 1: He and thy hand arrayed, thy fingers ten, and thy
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 1: arms fastened to thy shoulders. Whence canst thou, then think
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  Speaker 1: o thou most weak of men, he'd be unmindful of
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  Speaker 1: thy subsistence. Story I saw the son of a rich
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  Speaker 1: man seated at the head of his father's sepulcher, and
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  Speaker 1: engage in a dispute with the son of a poor man,
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  Speaker 1: and saying, my father's sarcophagus is of stone, and the
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  Speaker 1: inscription colored with the pavement of alabaster and turquoise bricks.
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  Speaker 1: What resemblance has it to that of thy father, which
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 1: consists of a brick or two huddled together, with a
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: few handfuls of dust sprinkled over it. The son of
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  Speaker 1: the poor man heard him and answered, peace, For before
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 1: thy father can have moved himself under this heavy stone,
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  Speaker 1: my sire will have arrived in paradise. This is a
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  Speaker 1: saying of the prophet. The death of the poor is
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  Speaker 1: repose couplet. Doubtless the ass on whom they do impose
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  Speaker 1: the lightest burden also easiest goes Stanza. The poor man
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  Speaker 1: who the agony has born of famine's fangs treads lightly
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 1: to the door of death, while one from blessings, torn
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  Speaker 1: from luxury and ease, will grieve the more to lose them.
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  Speaker 1: This is certain happier he whom, like a captive death
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: from bonds sets free than great men whom it hurries
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 1: to captivity. Maxims on the duties of society Maxim. Riches
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  Speaker 1: are for the sake of making life comfortable, not life
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  Speaker 1: for the sake of a massing riches. I asked a
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 1: wise man, who is fortunate and who unfortunate? He replied,
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 1: the fortune is he who sowed and reaped, the unfortunate
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  Speaker 1: he who died and abandoned couplet. Not for that worthless one.
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  Speaker 1: The prayer of Ford, who life in hoardings spent ne'er
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: spent his hoarde Maxim. Two men have labored fruitlessly and
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 1: exerted themselves to no purpose. One is a man who
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 1: has gained wealth without enjoying it. The other, he who
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 1: has acquired knowledge but has failed to practice it. Disticks
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 1: how much so e'er thou learn'st tis all vain who
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 1: practiced not still ignorant, remain a quadruped with volumes laden
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 1: is no wit. The wiser or more sage. For this,
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 1: how can the witless animal discern if books be piled
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 1: on it, or would to burn Maxim. Science is for
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 1: the cultivation of religion, not for worldly enjoyments. Couplet who
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 1: makes a gain of virtue science law is one who
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 1: garners up then burns his store. Maxim. Three things lack
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 1: permanency uncombined with three other things. Wealth without trading, learning
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  Speaker 1: without instruction, and empire without a strict administration of justice
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  Speaker 1: Stanza by courteous speech, politeness, gentleness. Sometimes thou mayest direct
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  Speaker 1: the human will anon by threats. Bread oft profits less
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 1: with sugar twice a hundred cups to fill than from
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 1: one colocinth its bitters to distill Maxim. To show pity
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 1: to the bad is to oppress the good, and to
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 1: pardon o presses is to tyrannize over the oppressed couplet.
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  Speaker 1: When thou to base men give'st encouragement, thou shareest'st their sins,
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 1: since thou them aid it hast lent Maxim. No reliance
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 1: can be placed on the friendship of princes, nor must
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 1: we plume ourselves on the sweet voices of children, since
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  Speaker 1: that is changed by a caprice, and these by a
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 1: single slumber couplet on the mistress of a thousand hearts,
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 1: do not thy love bestow, But if thou wilt prepare
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  Speaker 1: eftsoons her friendship to forego. Maxim Reveal not to a
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  Speaker 1: friend every secret that thou possessest Thou knowest thou whether
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  Speaker 1: at some time he may not become an enemy, nor
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 1: inflict on thy enemy every injury that is in thy power.
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 1: Perchance he may some day become thy friend. Tell not
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 1: the secret that thou wouldst have continue hidden to any person,
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 1: though he may be worthy of confidence, For no one
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 1: will be so careful of thy secret as thyself. Stanza
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  Speaker 1: better be so voland than thy purpose. Tell to others
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 1: and enjoin them secrecy, O dolt, keep back the water
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 1: at the well for the swollen stream to stop. Thou't
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  Speaker 1: vainly try in private utter not a single word which
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 1: thou in public wouldst regret were heard. Maxim, Let thy
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  Speaker 1: words between two foes be such that, if they were
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 1: to become friends, thou wouldst not be ashamed. Distics like
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 1: fire is strife betwixt two enemies. The luckless mischief maker
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 1: would supplies struck with confusion and ashamed. Is he if
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 1: ere the two belligerents agree, Can we, in this aught
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: rational discern to light a fire which will ourselves first burn?
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 1: Stanza In talk with friends, speak soft and low lest
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 1: thy bloodthirsty foemen. Thee should hear a wall, May thee true?
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 1: But dost thou know if there be not behind a
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 1: listening ear? Maxim, whoever comes to an agreement with the
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 1: enemies of his friends, does so with the intention of
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 1: injuring the latter. Couplet estee that friend. If thou art
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: wise who consorts with thy enemies. Maxim, when in transacting business,
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 1: thou art in doubt, make choice of that side from
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 1: which the least injury will result. Couplet reply not roughly
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 1: to smooth the language, nor contend with him who knocks
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 1: at peace's door, Maxim. Anger that has no limit causes terror.
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 1: An unseasonable kindness does away with respect. Be not so
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 1: severe as to cause disgust, nor so lenient as to
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 1: make people presume disticks. Sternness and gentleness are best can
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 1: bind the leech. Both salves and scarifies. You find the
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 1: sage is not too rigorous, nor yet too mild lest
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  Speaker 1: men their awe of him. Forget. He seeks not for
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 1: himself to hire a place, nor will himself to suddenly
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 1: a base disticts. Once to his sire, a shepherd said, O, sage,
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 1: teach me one, Maxim worthy of thy age. Use gentleness,
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 1: he said, Yet not so much that the wolf be
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 1: emboldened thee to clutch Maxim. Two persons are the foes
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 1: of a state and a religion. A king without clemency
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 1: and a religious man without learning. Couplet. Near to that
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 1: king may states allegiance own who bows not humbly at
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 1: the Almighty's throne Maxim. When an enemy has tried every
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 1: expedient in vain, he will pretend friendship, and then, by
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 1: this pretext execute designs which no enemy could have effected. Maxim.
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  Speaker 1: When thou knowest tidings that will pain the heart of
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 1: any one, be silent, so that another may be the
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 1: first to convey them. Couplet. O nightingale springs, tidings breathe
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 1: ill rumors to the owls bequeath Maxim. Do not acquaint
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 1: a king with the treason of any one unless thou
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  Speaker 1: art assured that the disclosure will meet with his full approval. Else,
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 1: Thou art but laboring for thy own destruction Couplet. Then
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 1: only then to speak intend when speaking can effect thy
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 1: end Maxim. He who gives advice to a conceited man
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 1: is himself in need of counsel. Maxim. Be not caught
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 1: by the artifice of a foe, nor purchase pride of
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 1: a flatterer, for the one has set the snare of hypocrisy,
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 1: and the other has opened the mouth of greediness. The
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 1: fool is puffed up with flattery, like a corpse whose
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 1: inflated heels appear plump. Stanza Heed not the flatterer's fulsome talk.
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  Speaker 1: He from thee hopes some trifle to obtain thou wilt,
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 1: shouldst thou his wishes balk to a hundred times as
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 1: much of censure again Maxim. Unless someone points out to
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 1: an orator his defects, his discourse will never be amended. Couplet.
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 1: De vault of one's own speaking is not meet at
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 1: fool's approval and one's own conceit Maxim. Everyone thinks his
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 1: own judgment perfect and his own son beautiful. Verse. A
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 1: jew and muscleman once so contended that laughter seized me
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 1: as their contest grew the true believer thus is called defended.
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  Speaker 1: Is this bond false? Then may I die? Ajiew the
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 1: Jew replied by Moses books I vow that tis true,
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 1: or else a mussulman am I So from Earth's face
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 1: were wisdomself to fly, not one could be amongst us
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 1: found to allow that he judgment lacked or himself stultify Maxim.
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 1: Whosoever does no good when he has the ability to
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 1: do it in the time of inability to aid others,
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 1: will himself suffer distress, couplet ill starred. Indeed, is he
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 1: who injures men his fortune adverse he is friendless? Then Maxim,
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 1: affairs succeed by patience, and he that is hasty falleth
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 1: headlong distics. I've in the desert with these eyes beheld
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 1: the hurrying pilgrims to the slow stepped yield, the rapid courser.
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 1: The rear remains, while a slow camel still its step,
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 1: maintains Maxim. There is no better ornament for the ignorant
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 1: than silence. And did he but know this, he would
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 1: not be ignorant. Stanza, hast thou not perfect excellence? Tis
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 1: best to keep thy tongue in silence. For tis this
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 1: which shames a man, as lightness does attest the nut
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 1: is empty, nor of value is Stanza. Once in these
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 1: words a fool rebuked an ass Go thou, who all
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 1: thy life hast lived in vain. A sage said to him, blockhead,
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 1: Why dost thou pass thy time in this jibes? Will
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 1: be all thy gain to learn of thee a brute
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 1: no power has learn Thou of brutes in silence to
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 1: remain Maxim. Whoso sits with bad men will not see
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 1: aught good disticks with demons. Did an angel take his seat,
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 1: he'd learn but terror, treason and deceit. Thou from the
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 1: bad wilt nothing learn but ill The wolf will ne'er
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 1: the farrier's office fill Maxim. Divulge not the secret faults
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 1: of men, For at the same time that thou disgracest them,
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 1: thou wilt destroy thy own credit. Maxim. He that has
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 1: acquired learning and not practiced what he has learned is
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 1: like a man who plows but sows no seed. Maxim.
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 1: Worship cannot be performed by the body without the mind,
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 1: and a shell without a colonel will not do. For
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 1: merchandise Maxim. Not everyone who is ready at wrangling, is
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 1: correct in his dealings. Couplet forms an how beneath the mantle,
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 1: where the outward signs of grace. But if thou should'st
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 1: them unw whimple, thou wouldst find a grandam's face. Maxim.
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  Speaker 1: Not every one whose outward form is graceful possesses the
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 1: graces of the mind. For action depends on the heart,
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  Speaker 1: not on the exterior Stanza. From a man's qualities, a
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 1: day's enough to make us of his learning's limit. Sure,
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 1: plume not thyself as though the hidden stuff thou of
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 1: his heart hast reached, nor be secure, For not in
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 1: long revolving years can tell the foul things which in
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 1: man unnoticed dwell Maxim. A weak man who has the
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 1: foolhardiness to contend with a strong one assists his adversary
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 1: in destroying himself. Stanza. He who has nursed in soft
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 1: repose cannot with warriors to the battle, go vain with
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 1: his weekly arm to close and struggle with an iron
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 1: wristed foe. Maxim. Whoso will not listen to advice aims
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 1: at hearing himself reproached. Couplet, He who will not to
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 1: friend's advice attend must not complain when they him reprehend Maxim.
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 1: Persons devoid of virtue cannot endure the sight of the virtuous,
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 1: just as market curs when they see dogs of the
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 1: chase bark at them, but dare not approach them. Maxim.
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 1: When a base fellow cannot vie with another in merit,
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 1: he will attack him with malicious slander. Couplet, weak envy,
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 1: absent virtue slanders. Why since it is dumb perforce when
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 1: it is by Maxim. Wise men eat late, devout men
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 1: but half satisfy their appetites, and hermits take only enough
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 1: to support life. The young eat till the dishes are removed,
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 1: and the old till they sweat for the calender's stuff
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  Speaker 1: till they have no ruminous stomachs to breathe, and not
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 1: a morsel is left on the table for any one.
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 1: Couplet the glutton for two nights no sleep can get
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 1: the first from surfeit, the next from regret. Maxim. Whoso
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 1: slays not his enemy when he is in his power,
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 1: is his own enemy. Couplet. When a stone is in
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 1: the hand on a stone the serpent's pate, he is
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 1: not a man of sense who to strike should hesitate.
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 1: There are, however, persons who think the opposite of this advisable,
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 1: and have said it is better to pause in the
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 1: execution of prisoners inasmuch as the option of slaying or
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 1: pardoning them is retained. Whereas if a prisoner be put
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 1: to death without deliberation, it is probable that the best
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 1: course will be let slip, since the step is Irremediablelets
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 1: tis very easy one alive to slay, not so to
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 1: give back life. Thou takest away reason de bands that arches,
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 1: patients show for shafts. Once shot, return not to the bow,
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 1: maxim The sage who engages in controversy with ignorant people
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  Speaker 1: must not expect to be treated with honor. And if
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  Speaker 1: a fool should overpower a philosopher by his loquacity, it
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  Speaker 1: is not to be wondered at. For a common stone
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 1: will break a jewel couplet. What marvel is it if
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 1: his spirits droop a nightingale, and with him crows to
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 1: coop couplets. What if a vagabond on merit rail let
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 1: not the spirits of the worthy fail. A common stone
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 1: may break a golden cup, its value goes not down
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 1: the stones, not up. Maxim It is not right to
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 1: estrange in a moment. A friend who takes a lifetime
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 1: to secure triplet tis years before the pebble can put
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 1: on the ruby's nature. Wilt thou on a stone in
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 1: one short moment, mar what time has done. Maxim. Purpose
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 1: without power is mere weakness and deception, and power without
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 1: purpose is fatuity and insanity. Couplet have judgment, counsel sense,
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 1: and then bear rule wealth empire are self murder to
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 1: the fool. The liberal man who enjoys and bestows is
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 1: better than the devitee who fasts and lays. By whoso
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  Speaker 1: abandons lust in order to gain acceptance with the world
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  Speaker 1: has fallen from venial desires into those which are unpardonable.
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  Speaker 1: Couplet hermits who are not so through piety, darken a
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  Speaker 1: glass and then attempt to see couplet little to little
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  Speaker 1: added much will grow the barn store. Grain by grain
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  Speaker 1: is gathered, so many littles make a mikel many drops
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  Speaker 1: a flood. Maxim It is not right for a learned
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  Speaker 1: man to pass over leniently the foolish impertinences of the vulgar,
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  Speaker 1: For this is detrimental to both parties. The ore which
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  Speaker 1: the former ought to inspire is diminished, and the folly
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  Speaker 1: of the latter augmented. Couplet art Thou, with fools too
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  Speaker 1: courteous and too free, their pride and folly will augmented
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  Speaker 1: be Maxim. People forget the name of him whose bread
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  Speaker 1: they have not tasted during his lifetime. Joseph, the just
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  Speaker 1: peace beyond him, during the famine in Egypt, would not
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  Speaker 1: eat so as to satisfy his appetite, that he might
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  Speaker 1: not forget the hungry. It is the poor widow that
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  Speaker 1: relishes the grapes, not the owner of the vineyard couplets.
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  Speaker 1: He who in pleasure and abundance lives, what knows he
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  Speaker 1: of the pang that hunger gives, he can affliction best appreciate,
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  Speaker 1: who has himself experienced the same state. Stanza O Thou
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  Speaker 1: who writest a metal courser, see how toils midmire the
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  Speaker 1: poor thorn loaded ass from poor men's houses. Let no
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  Speaker 1: fire for thee be brought the wreaths, which from their
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  Speaker 1: chimney pass are sighs wrung from their hearts. By Destiny Maxim,
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  Speaker 1: two things are impossible to obtain more food than what
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  Speaker 1: Providence destines for us, and to die before the time
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  Speaker 1: known to God Stanza. Fate is not altered by a
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  Speaker 1: thousand sighs, complain or render thanks arrive. It will the angel,
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  Speaker 1: at whose bidding winds arise, cares little for the widow's lamp,
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  Speaker 1: if still is burns or by the storm extinguished dies Maxim,
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  Speaker 1: the envious man begrudgeth God's blessings and is the foe
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  Speaker 1: of the innocent Stanza A wretched, cracked brained fellow. Once
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  Speaker 1: I saw who slanded one of lofty dignity, I said,
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  Speaker 1: good Sir, I grant thee that a flaw may in
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  Speaker 1: thy fortunes be observed. But why impute it to the
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  Speaker 1: man who lives more happily? Second Stanza, O on the
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  Speaker 1: envious man, invoke no curse for of himself, poor wretch,
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  Speaker 1: A cursed is he on him? No hatred can inflict
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  Speaker 1: aught worse than his self fed, self torturing enmity, Maxim.
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  Speaker 1: A student without the inclination to learn is a lover
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  Speaker 1: without money, and a pilgrim without spirituality is a bird
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  Speaker 1: without wings, and a devitee without learning is a house
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  Speaker 1: without a door. End of Gulistan or rose Garden end
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  Speaker 1: of section four section five of a selection from the
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  Speaker 1: poetry of Sadi Shirazi edited by Nathan Haskell Doll and
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  Speaker 1: Bell Walker. This liby box recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 1: Selections from Bushstan or The Garden of Perfume. The Moth
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  Speaker 1: and the Flame. One night, I do remember when mine
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  Speaker 1: eyes closed, not I heard it talking in this wise,
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  Speaker 1: moth said to lamp flame, Ah, my well beloved, I
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  Speaker 1: am a lover. This is no surprise if I do
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  Speaker 1: weep and burn. But thou, but thou, why do I
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  Speaker 1: see thee weeping burning? Now? The lamp replied, sithen imn
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  Speaker 1: soft lover. The honey of my life melts from my brow,
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  Speaker 1: it said, Oh, tearful lover, cease to sigh passion's worst pangs.
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  Speaker 1: Thou knowest not as I leave, claiming, leave lamenting, or
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  Speaker 1: come boldly, nor power nor patience of love's mystery. Hast
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  Speaker 1: thou who fliest from my naked fire, desiring, yet afraid
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  Speaker 1: of thy desire. Hither and thither dost thou flutter fearful?
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  Speaker 1: But I consume, exhale, glow, and expire. If flame of
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  Speaker 1: love thy silver feathers scorch look upon me, who am
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  Speaker 1: Love's kindled torch? Think on the blaze and torrent of
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  Speaker 1: my burning, forget my splendor. Lightning court and porch there
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  Speaker 1: lingered some little of the night. When one party face
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  Speaker 1: put out that light, the smoke rose like a parting soul.
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  Speaker 1: It whisper'd look lover. Now indeed love endeth right. This
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  Speaker 1: is the road rah in ust, learn of me dying,
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  Speaker 1: Thou gainest Love's best ecstasy, make over loba slain, no lamentation,
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  Speaker 1: cry shukur thanks, he is accepted. He oth thou beast,
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  Speaker 1: true lover, Wash not hand from that dear stain of love,
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  Speaker 1: from worldly brand of wealth and self love. Wash it
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  Speaker 1: at the last those win who, spite of fortune's tempest,
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  Speaker 1: stand glad to wreck all for love. I say to
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  Speaker 1: thee ay Sadi, launch not on that boundless sea. But
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  Speaker 1: if thou puttest forth, hoist sail, quit anchor to storm
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  Speaker 1: and wave, trust thyself hardily. Story of the pearl from
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  Speaker 1: a cloud. There descended a droplet of rain twas a
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  Speaker 1: shade when it saw the expanse of the main, saying,
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  Speaker 1: who may I be where the sea has its run?
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  Speaker 1: If the sea has existence, I truly have none, since
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  Speaker 1: in its own eyes, the drop humble appeared in its bosom,
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  Speaker 1: a shell with its life. The drop reared, the sky
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  Speaker 1: brought the work with success to a close, and a
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  Speaker 1: famed royal pearl from the rain drop arose. Because it
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  Speaker 1: was humble, its excellence gained patiently, waiting till success was obtained.
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  Speaker 1: The death of Sadi's son at Sunna, a young child
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  Speaker 1: of mine melted away of all that occurred to me,
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  Speaker 1: what shall I say? A joseph like picture the fates
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  Speaker 1: never gave, but was jonahlike gulped by the fish of
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  Speaker 1: the grave. In this garden a cypress ne'er reached any height,
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  Speaker 1: but the tempests of fate pulled its roots from their sight.
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  Speaker 1: No wonder that roses will blow on the ground when
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  Speaker 1: beneath it, so many rose bodies sleep. Sound to my heart,
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  Speaker 1: I said, die thou disgrace to mankind. The child goes
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  Speaker 1: off pure, the old man vile in mind, out of
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  Speaker 1: love and distress for his stature alone from his term
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  Speaker 1: I extracted a panel of stone on account of my
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  Speaker 1: dread in that dark, narrow place. My disconsolate state changed
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  Speaker 1: the hue of my face. When I came to myself
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  Speaker 1: from that horrible fear from my darling, loved child. This
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  Speaker 1: arrived at my ear. If this region of darkness produced
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  Speaker 1: in New fright, take care when you enter to carry
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  Speaker 1: a light, if you wish that the night of the
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  Speaker 1: tomb should appear bright as day light. The lamp of
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  Speaker 1: your actions while here shakes the husbandman's body from fever
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  Speaker 1: and care. Peradventure. The palms should not luscious states bear
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  Speaker 1: some covetous men. The opinion maintain that without sowing wheat,
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  Speaker 1: they'll a harvest. Obtain He who planted the root, sardi
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  Speaker 1: on the fruit feeds, He will gather the harvest who
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  Speaker 1: scattered the seeds. Patience and contentment In a generous man's spirit,
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  Speaker 1: perfection is bred. If no money he owns, what's the
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  Speaker 1: harm or the dread? Where a mazaweth creases in riches
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  Speaker 1: to range, Do not think that his miserly spirit would change.
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  Speaker 1: If a liberal person obtains not his bread, his spirit
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  Speaker 1: is rich, just as if he were fed the givings
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  Speaker 1: the ground and the means the sown field bestow that
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  Speaker 1: the root fertile branches may yield. I would wonder where God,
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  Speaker 1: who makes man out of clay to make his humanity
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  Speaker 1: vanish away. In holding up wealth, do not strive to excel.
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  Speaker 1: For water when stagnant emits a bad smell. In munificence,
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  Speaker 1: labor for water that flows, by the favor of heaven
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  Speaker 1: to a mighty flood grows. If a miser should fall
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  Speaker 1: from his wealth and estate, very rarely again will his
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  Speaker 1: riches be great. If you are a jewel of worth,
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  Speaker 1: do not fret, for time will not cause your existence
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  Speaker 1: to set. A clod may be lying exposed on the way,
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  Speaker 1: yet I do not see any one heed to it.
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  Speaker 1: Pay If a clipping of gold should escape from the
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  Speaker 1: shears with a candle, they search for it till it
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  Speaker 1: appears from the heart of a stone. They can crystal
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  Speaker 1: obtain where under the rust does a mirror remain. The
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  Speaker 1: manners must please and exhibit much grace, for coming and
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  Speaker 1: going are fortune and place. The soufi and the shlanderer
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  Speaker 1: set a man to a sufi with sanctity. Blessed. You
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  Speaker 1: know not what some one behind you expressed, He said, Silence,
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  Speaker 1: o brother, and sleep it away. It is best not
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  Speaker 1: to know what your enemies say. Those people who carry
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 1: the words of a foe than enemies truly more enmity.
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  Speaker 1: Show the remarks of a foe to a friend no
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  Speaker 1: one bears, excepting the man who is enmity shares. A
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  Speaker 1: folk cannot speak with such hardiness to me that from
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  Speaker 1: hearing my body should shivering be. You are worse than
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  Speaker 1: a foe. With your lips you unfold the same that
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  Speaker 1: your foe to you privately told. A tale bearer gives
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  Speaker 1: to old war a fresh life and urges a good
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  Speaker 1: gentle person to strife. Fly away from that comrade, while
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  Speaker 1: strength in you lies. Who says unto sleeping sedition arise.
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  Speaker 1: A man in a pit with his feet firmly bound
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  Speaker 1: is better than spreading disturbance around between two. An encounter
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  Speaker 1: resembles a fire, and the ill omened tell tales the
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 1: fuel supplier. Sympathy for orphans a shade or the head
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  Speaker 1: of the orphan boy put disperse all his sighs and
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  Speaker 1: his sorrows up root. You know not why he has
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  Speaker 1: this helplessness. Seen does a tree without root ever show
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  Speaker 1: itself green? When you see the sad head of an
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 1: orphan bent low on the face of your son, do
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  Speaker 1: not kisses bestow If an orphan should weep, who will
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 1: purchase relief. And should he be vexed, who will share
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 1: in his grief? Take care lest he weeps, for the
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  Speaker 1: great throne on high will tremble and shake. Should an
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  Speaker 1: orphan child cry by kindness the tears from his pure eyes,
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  Speaker 1: displace by compassion, disperse all the dust from his face.
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  Speaker 1: If his own sheltering shadow has gone from his head,
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  Speaker 1: take him under your own fostering shadow instead. I, at
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  Speaker 1: that time the head of a monarch possessed, when I
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  Speaker 1: let it recline on my own father's breast. If a
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  Speaker 1: fly in my body made bold to a light, the
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  Speaker 1: hearts of a number were grieved at the sight. If
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  Speaker 1: now to a dungeon they captive me, bear not one
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  Speaker 1: of my friends to assist me, would care the sufferings
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  Speaker 1: of poor orphaned children? I know in my childhood my
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  Speaker 1: father to God had to go dealing with enemies until
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 1: your diplomacy terminates. Right, it is better to flatter your
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  Speaker 1: foe than to fight when by force you are unable
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  Speaker 1: to vanquish your foes by favors. The portal of strife
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  Speaker 1: you must close if you fear, lest you be by
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  Speaker 1: an enemy stung with a charm of munificence, tie up
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  Speaker 1: his tongue. Give your enemy money, not thorns from a head.
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  Speaker 1: For munificence blunts all the teeth that have edge. By skill,
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  Speaker 1: you can coax and enjoy earthly bliss. The hand you
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  Speaker 1: can't bite, it is proper to kiss. By management, rustom
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  Speaker 1: will come to the noose from whose coil, Asfangyard could
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  Speaker 1: not cast himself loose. You can find the occasion your
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  Speaker 1: foe's skin to rend. Take care of him. Then, as
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  Speaker 1: you would of a friend, be cautious in fighting with
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  Speaker 1: one you despise from a drop. I have oft seen
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  Speaker 1: a torrent arise, while you can, let not knots on
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  Speaker 1: your eyebrows be seen. And opponent is best as a friend,
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  Speaker 1: although mean, his foe shows delight and his friend shows distress.
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  Speaker 1: Whose friends are in count than his enemies less with
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  Speaker 1: an army exceeding your own, do not fight, for you
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  Speaker 1: can't with your finger a lancet's points smite. And should
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  Speaker 1: you be stronger in war than your foe to the
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  Speaker 1: week tis unmanly oppression to show. Though you've line like
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  Speaker 1: hands and an elephant's force, Peace is better than war.
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  Speaker 1: As a matter of course, when the hand has by
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  Speaker 1: every deception been torn, the hand to the sword may
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  Speaker 1: be lawfully borne. Should your fair wish for peace his request,
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  Speaker 1: do not spurn, And should he seek battle, the reins
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  Speaker 1: do not turn. For should he resolve to resist in
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  Speaker 1: the field, the strength and the awe of a thousand
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  Speaker 1: yu'll wield. If his foot he is placed in the
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  Speaker 1: stirrup of war, you won't be arraigned at the great judgment.
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  Speaker 1: Bar be prepared to for war, should sedition awake. For
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  Speaker 1: kindness to blackguards is quite a mistake. If you talk
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  Speaker 1: in an affable way to a wretch, his presumption and
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 1: arrogance higher will stretch when your enemy vanquish'd approaches your gait.
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  Speaker 1: Cast revenge from your heart, and cast ire from your pate.
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  Speaker 1: You should kindness bestow when he asks for your care,
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  Speaker 1: be gracious, and of his deceptions. Beware from an aged
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  Speaker 1: man's counseling, turn not away, for he knows his work well.
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  Speaker 1: Who has lived to be gray? And should there remove
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  Speaker 1: from its sight the stronghold the youth of the sword,
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  Speaker 1: and with wisdom the old in the thick of the fight,
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  Speaker 1: bear a refuge in mind? What know you? Which side
• 1:44:25
  Speaker 1: will the victory find? When you see that your army
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  Speaker 1: has lost in the strife alone. Do not cast to
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  Speaker 1: the wind your sweet life. Should your place be the border,
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 1: make running your care. And if in the middle the
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  Speaker 1: foes raiment ware. If you number two thousand, two hundred
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 1: your foe, when night has arrived from his clime, you
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  Speaker 1: should go at night fifty horsemen from lying in wait
• 1:44:51
  Speaker 1: like five hundred a noise on the ground will create.
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  Speaker 1: When you wish to accomplish some marches by night, first
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 1: look for the ambush hidden from sight. When one of
• 1:45:02
  Speaker 1: two armies is marched for a day, the strength from
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  Speaker 1: his hands will have dwindled away. At your leisure, the
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 1: army exhausted attack, for the fool has himself placed a
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  Speaker 1: load on his back. When you vanquished your foe, do
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  Speaker 1: not lower your flag, lest again he should gather his
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  Speaker 1: forces and brag in pursuit of the fugitives. Go not
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  Speaker 1: too far, for you should not lose sight of your
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  Speaker 1: comrades in war. When the air from war's dust like
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  Speaker 1: a cloud to you, shows around you with spears and
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 1: with swords, they will close from searching for plunder the
• 1:45:38
  Speaker 1: soldiery frains, who alone at the back of the monarch
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  Speaker 1: remains to an army. The duty of guarding the king
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  Speaker 1: is better than to fight in the Battlefield's ring of
• 1:45:51
  Speaker 1: Sadi's journey to Hindustan and the depravity of idolatry an
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  Speaker 1: ivory Idol I saw at Somnat, but Jem, as in
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 1: Pagani's times, was monat so well had the sculptor its
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  Speaker 1: features designed that an image more perfect no mortal could find.
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  Speaker 1: Caravans from each district were moving along to look at
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  Speaker 1: that spiritless image. They throng kings of China and Shigil,
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  Speaker 1: like Sadi forsooth. From that heard hearted idol were longing
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  Speaker 1: for truth. Men of eloquence gathered from every place, were
• 1:46:27
  Speaker 1: beseeching in front of that dumb idol's face. I was
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  Speaker 1: helpless to clear up the circumstance. How the animate would
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  Speaker 1: the inanimate bow to a pagan with whom I had
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  Speaker 1: something to do? Her companion well spoken, a chum of
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  Speaker 1: mine too, are remarked in a whisper, her brahmin so
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  Speaker 1: wise of the scenes in this place, they experienced surprise
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  Speaker 1: about this helpless form. They are crazed in their mind
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 1: and in erosdiep pit are as captives confined. Its hands
• 1:46:58
  Speaker 1: have no strength and its feet have no pace, and
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 1: if thrown on the ground, twould not rise from its place.
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  Speaker 1: Don't you see that its eyes but amber let in?
• 1:47:09
  Speaker 1: To seek for good faith in the blind is a sin.
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  Speaker 1: That friend, my speech to an enemy turned. He seized me,
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  Speaker 1: and firelike from anger he burned. He told all the
• 1:47:21
  Speaker 1: pagans and temple old men, I saw not my welfare
• 1:47:25
  Speaker 1: in that meeting. Then, since the crooked roads seem'd unto
• 1:47:29
  Speaker 1: them to be right, the straight road, very crooked, appeared
• 1:47:33
  Speaker 1: in their sight. For although a good man may be
• 1:47:36
  Speaker 1: pious and wise, is an ignorant fool in the ignorance eyes.
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 1: I was helpless to aid as a man being drowned
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 1: except in a basement. No method I found. When you
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  Speaker 1: see that a fool has malevolence shown, resignation and meekness,
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 1: give safety alone. The chief of the Brahmins, I praised
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 1: to the skies of the z and ast Oh expounder.
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  Speaker 1: Most wise with its idol's appearance, I'm satisfied too, for
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 1: the faith and the features are charming to view. Its
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 1: figure appears very choice in my sight. But regarding the truth,
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  Speaker 1: I am ignorant. Quite I am here as a traveler
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 1: a very short while, and a stranger knows seldom the
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 1: good from the vile. You're the queen of the chessboard,
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  Speaker 1: and therefore aware, and the monarch's adviser of this temple
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  Speaker 1: fair to worship. By mimicking doubtless is wrong. Oh, happy
• 1:48:34
  Speaker 1: the pilgrim whose knowledge is strong? What truths in the
• 1:48:38
  Speaker 1: figure of this idle lie? For the chief of its worshipers,
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  Speaker 1: truly am I. The face of the old Brahmin glowed
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  Speaker 1: with delight. He was pleased, and said, O, thou, whose
• 1:48:51
  Speaker 1: statements are right, Your question is proper, your action is wise.
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  Speaker 1: Whoever seeks truth will to happiness rise like yourself too.
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  Speaker 1: On many a journey I have been, and idle, not
• 1:49:02
  Speaker 1: knowing themselves, I have seen save this, which, each morning,
• 1:49:07
  Speaker 1: just where it now stands to the great God of justice,
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  Speaker 1: upraises its hands. And if you are willing remain the
• 1:49:15
  Speaker 1: night here and to morrow, the secret to you will
• 1:49:18
  Speaker 1: be clear. At the chief Brahman's bidding, I tarried all
• 1:49:22
  Speaker 1: night in the weller misfortune like bids huns my plight.
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  Speaker 1: The night seem'd as long as the last judgment to
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  Speaker 1: day the pagans unwash'd round me feigning to pray. The
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  Speaker 1: priests very carefully, water did shun the armpits, like carrion
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  Speaker 1: expos'd in the sun. Perhaps a great sinner I had
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  Speaker 1: done long before that. I on that night, so much
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  Speaker 1: punishment bore all the night. I was rack'd in this
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  Speaker 1: prison of grief, with one hand on my heart, one
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  Speaker 1: in prayer for relief. When the drummer, with suddenness, beat
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  Speaker 1: his loud dry, and a cock crowed, the fate of
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  Speaker 1: the Brahmin to come unresisted the black coated preacher the
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  Speaker 1: night drew forth from his scabbard the sword of daylight
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  Speaker 1: on this tinder. The morning fire happened to fall, and
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  Speaker 1: the world in a moment was brilliant to all. You'd
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  Speaker 1: have said that all over the country of Zang from
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  Speaker 1: a corner the tatars had suddenly sprung. The pagans, depraved
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  Speaker 1: with unpurified face, came from door, street and plane to
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  Speaker 1: the worshiping place. The city and lanes were a people
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  Speaker 1: bereft in the temple, no room for a needle was left.
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  Speaker 1: I was troubled from rage and from sleeplessness, dazed. When
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  Speaker 1: the idol, its hands upward, suddenly raised all at once
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  Speaker 1: from the people. There rose such a shout you'd have
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  Speaker 1: said that the sea in a rage had boiled out.
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  Speaker 1: When the temple became from the multitude free, the Brahman,
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  Speaker 1: all smiles, gazed intently at me. I am sure that
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  Speaker 1: your scruples have vanished, He said, truth has made itself manifest.
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  Speaker 1: Falsehood has fled. When I saw he was slave to
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  Speaker 1: an ignorant whim, and that fancies absurd were established in him.
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  Speaker 1: Respecting the truth, I no more could reveal, For from
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  Speaker 1: Scoffer's tis proper the truth to conceal. When you find
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  Speaker 1: yourself under a tyrant's command, it would scarcely be manly
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  Speaker 1: to break your own hand. I wept for a time
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  Speaker 1: that he might be deceived, and said at the statement
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  Speaker 1: I made, I am grieved at my weeping. The pagan's
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  Speaker 1: hearts merciful proved. Is it strange that a stone by
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  Speaker 1: the torrent is moved in attendance? They ran to me
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  Speaker 1: very much pleased, and in doing me honor my hands
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  Speaker 1: they all seized, asking pardon. I went to the image
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  Speaker 1: of bone in a chair made of gold on a
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  Speaker 1: teak timber throne, to the hand of the idol. I
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  Speaker 1: gave saying, curse it and every idolatrous slave. A pagan
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  Speaker 1: I was for a while in a name, in discussing
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  Speaker 1: that zend I a Brahman became. When myself one of
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  Speaker 1: trust in the temple, I found I could, scarcely from
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  Speaker 1: joy keep myself on the ground. I fastened the door
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  Speaker 1: of the temple one night, and scorpion like ran to
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  Speaker 1: the left and the right, all under and over the throne.
• 1:52:30
  Speaker 1: I then pried, and a curtain embroidered with gold, I
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  Speaker 1: espied a fire temple prelate in rear of the screen,
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  Speaker 1: with the end of a rope in his hands, could
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  Speaker 1: be seen the state of affairs. I at once saw
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  Speaker 1: a right like David, when steel grew like wax in
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  Speaker 1: his sight. For of course he has only the rope
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  Speaker 1: to depress. When the idol up raises its hands for redress.
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  Speaker 1: A shame was the Brahmin at seeing my face, for
• 1:52:58
  Speaker 1: to have any secret exposed a disgrace. He bolted an
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  Speaker 1: iron pursuit of him, fell and speedily tumbled him into
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  Speaker 1: a well. For I knew that the Brahmin, escaping alive
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  Speaker 1: to compass my death, would incessantly strive, and where I
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  Speaker 1: despatch'd he would happiness feel lest living I might his
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  Speaker 1: base secret reveal. When you know of the business a
• 1:53:23
  Speaker 1: villain has plann'd, put it out of his power when
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  Speaker 1: he falls to your hand. For if to that blackguard
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  Speaker 1: reprieve you should give, he will not desire that you
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  Speaker 1: longer should live. When it serve as he places his
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  Speaker 1: head at your gate. If he can, he will surely
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  Speaker 1: your head amputate your feet in the track of a sheet.
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  Speaker 1: Do not place. If you do and discover him, show
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  Speaker 1: him no grace. I despatched the impost with stones without dread,
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  Speaker 1: for tales are not told by a man when he's dead.
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  Speaker 1: When I found that I caused a disturbed to spread,
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  Speaker 1: I abandoned that country and hastily fled. If a fire
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  Speaker 1: in a cane break, you cause to rise, look out
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  Speaker 1: for the tigers therein. If you're wise the young of
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  Speaker 1: a man biting snake. Do not slay if you do
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  Speaker 1: in the same dwelling place, Do not stay when you've
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  Speaker 1: managed to hive full of bees to excite. Run away
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  Speaker 1: from the spot, or you'll suffer their spite at once
• 1:54:27
  Speaker 1: sharper than you. Dont an arrow despatch when you've done
• 1:54:31
  Speaker 1: it your skirt in your teeth, you should catch no
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  Speaker 1: better advice. Sadie's pages contain when a wall's undermined, do
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  Speaker 1: not near it remain. I traveled to sind after that
• 1:54:44
  Speaker 1: judgment day by yeminin Mekka. I thence took my way
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  Speaker 1: from the whole of the bitterness. Fate made me meet.
• 1:54:52
  Speaker 1: My mouth till to day has not shown itself sweet
• 1:54:55
  Speaker 1: by the aiding of Bulbakas'ad's fortune. Fair whose like not
• 1:55:00
  Speaker 1: mother has borne nor will bear from the sky's cruel hardness.
• 1:55:04
  Speaker 1: For just as I sought in this shadow, diffuser a refuge,
• 1:55:08
  Speaker 1: I got like a sleigh for the empire. I fervently
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  Speaker 1: pray O God, cause this shadow for ever to stay.
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  Speaker 1: He applied not the salve to my wound's need alone,
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  Speaker 1: but becoming the bounty and favor his own meet Thanks
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  Speaker 1: for his favors. When could I repeat, even if in
• 1:55:28
  Speaker 1: his service my head changed his feet. When his miseries past,
• 1:55:32
  Speaker 1: I experienced a joy in some of the subjects my
• 1:55:36
  Speaker 1: conscience annoy one is when the hand of petition and
• 1:55:40
  Speaker 1: praise to the shrine of the Knower of secrets, I
• 1:55:43
  Speaker 1: raise the thoughts of that huppet of China, arise and
• 1:55:47
  Speaker 1: cover with dust myself. Valuing eyes, I know that the
• 1:55:52
  Speaker 1: hand I stretched forth to the shrine was not lifted
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  Speaker 1: by any exertion of mine. Men of sanctity do not
• 1:55:59
  Speaker 1: their hands upwards bring, but the powers unseen pull the
• 1:56:02
  Speaker 1: end of the string, opes the doors of devotion and
• 1:56:06
  Speaker 1: well doing. Still, every man has not power a good
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  Speaker 1: work to fulfill. This same is a bar for a
• 1:56:13
  Speaker 1: court to repair. Is improper. Except the king's order you bear,
• 1:56:19
  Speaker 1: No man can the great key of destiny own, For
• 1:56:22
  Speaker 1: absolute power is the makers alone. Hence a traveling man
• 1:56:27
  Speaker 1: on the straight path divine. The favor is God, the creators,
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  Speaker 1: not thine, Since unseen he created your mind pure and
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  Speaker 1: wise from your nature. Our action depraved can arise the
• 1:56:42
  Speaker 1: same who has poison produced in the snake, the sweetness
• 1:56:46
  Speaker 1: produced by the bee who did make when he wished
• 1:56:49
  Speaker 1: to change to a desert your land. He first makes
• 1:56:52
  Speaker 1: the people distressed at your hand, and should his compassion
• 1:56:56
  Speaker 1: upon you descend to the people through you, he will
• 1:56:59
  Speaker 1: come extend that you walk the right road. Do not
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  Speaker 1: boast I advise, for the fates took your hand, and
• 1:57:07
  Speaker 1: you manage to rise. By these words you will benefit.
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  Speaker 1: If you attend, you will reach pious men. If their
• 1:57:14
  Speaker 1: pathway you wend, you will get a good place. If
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  Speaker 1: the fates are your guide. On the table of honor,
• 1:57:21
  Speaker 1: rich fare they'll provide. And yet tis not right that
• 1:57:25
  Speaker 1: you eat all alone. For the poor, helpless dervish, some
• 1:57:29
  Speaker 1: thought should be shown. End of selections from Bustan or
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  Speaker 1: The Garden of Perfume. End of a selection from the
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  Speaker 1: poetry of Sadi Shirazi, edited by Nathan Haskeldol and Belle Walker.
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  Speaker 1: Recording by Aljie pag