
“Friends are those rare people who ask how we are, and then wait to hear the answer.”
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“He alone is a man who keeps his word:
Not that he has one thing in the heart, and another on the tongue.”
― Zafarnama
Not that he has one thing in the heart, and another on the tongue.”
― Zafarnama
“In a brahmin house
where they feed the fire
as a god
when the fire goes wild
and burns the house
they splash on it
the water of the gutter
and the dust of the street,
beat their breasts
and call the crowd.
These men then forget their worship
and scold their fire,
O lord of the meeting rivers!”
― The lord of the meeting rivers: Devotional poems of Basavaṇṇa
where they feed the fire
as a god
when the fire goes wild
and burns the house
they splash on it
the water of the gutter
and the dust of the street,
beat their breasts
and call the crowd.
These men then forget their worship
and scold their fire,
O lord of the meeting rivers!”
― The lord of the meeting rivers: Devotional poems of Basavaṇṇa
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