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"Sweet are the garden, the rose, and wine, but they would not be sweet without the company of my darling."
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HafezSpend well thy time; drink wine within the bower — Hafez
"Spend well thy time; drink wine within the bower For when a week is gone, the flower is not; Snatch, snatch the hour that glads the heart so well For the pearl always in the shell is not."
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author1325–139040 quotes
Hafez Shirazi (1325–1390) was a Persian lyric poet whose collected works are regarded by many Iranians as one of the highest pinnacles of Persian literature. His works are often found in the homes of Persian speakers, who learn his poems by heart and use them as everyday proverbs and sayings. His life and poems have become the subjects of much analysis, commentary, and interpretation, influencing
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"Learn meekness from the shell in ocean’s bed And pearls on one who wounds thy head bestow."
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"Boy, let yon liquid ruby flow, And bid thy pensive heart be glad, Whate’er the frowning zealots say: Tell them, their Eden cannot show A stream so clear as Rocnabad, A bow’r so sweet as Mosellay."
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"Tis writ on Paradises gate, "Woe to the dupe that yields to Fate!"
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"I have shut my eye like a falcon to all the world Since my (inward) eye is open to thy beauteous countenance."
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"It is a crime to seek to raise but self, Before all other men to praise but self, The pupil of the eye a lesson gives, Be all submitted to thy gaze but self."
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