Al-Mutanabbi: Beautiful women, as experienced men know, Are but darkness wrapped in dazzling light aglow. A life of friv'lous youth an

Beautiful women, as experienced men know, Are but darkness wrapped in dazzling l — Al-Mutanabbi

Beautiful women, as experienced men know, Are but darkness wrapped in dazzling light aglow. A life of friv'lous youth and worried age, Its futile course to futile death will flow.

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أَنَامُ مِلْءَ جُفُونِي عَنْ شَوَارِدِهَا *** وَيَسْهَرُ الْخَلْقُ جَرَّاهَا وَي — Al-Mutanabbi
Glory in hardship, sloth in comfort lies. — Al-Mutanabbi
وَتَعظُمُ في عَينِ الصَغيرِ صِغارُها وَتَصغُرُ في عَينِ العَظيمِ العَظائِمُ — Al-Mutanabbi
إِذا غامَرتَ في شَرَفٍ مَرومٍ فَلا تَقنَع بِما دونَ النُجومِ — Al-Mutanabbi
Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to t — Ralph Waldo Emerson
But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there a — Jane Austen
Handsome is that handsome does. — Oliver Goldsmith
The moon has revealed her face, and opened her radiant wings, Borrow a soul and — Rumi
Aegroto dum anima est, spes esse dicitur. — There is said to be hope for a sick man
But to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom. — John Milton
Rien n'est si dangereux qu'un ignorant ami; Mieux vaudrait un sage ennemi. — Jean de La Fontaine
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral — Mark Twain