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We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.

We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.

An Arab, by his earnest gaze, Has clothed a lovely maid with blushes; A smile within his eyelids plays And into words his longing gushes.

Words of love, are works of love.

Ten poor men sleep in peace on one straw heap, as Saadi sings, But the immensest empire is too narrow for two kings.

Fill up the goblet and reach to me some! Drinking makes wise, but dry fasting makes glum.

False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.

False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.

A gray eye is a sly eye, And roguish is a brown one; Turn full upon me thy eye,-- Ah, how its wavelets drown one! A blue eye is a true eye; Mysterious is a dark one, Which flashes like a spark-sun! A black eye is the best one.

Beware the deadly fumes of that insane elation Which rises from the cup of mad impiety, And go, get drunk with that divine intoxication Which is more sober far than all sobriety.

As two floating planks meet and part on the sea, O friend! so I met and then drifted from thee.

The moon is a silver pin-head vast, That holds the heaven's tent-hangings fast.

A thousand year a poor man watched Before the gate of Paradise: But while one little nap he snatched, It oped and shut. Ah! was he wise?

In the nine heavens are eight Paradises; Where is the ninth one? In the human breast. Only the blessed dwell in th' Paradises, But blessedness dwells in the human breast.

With strength and patience all his grievous loads are borne, And from the world's rose-bed he only asks a thorn.

Ten poor men sleep in peace on one straw heap, as Saadi sings, But the immensest empire is too narrow for two kings.

Words of love, are works of love.

Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.