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“If a gem falls into mud it is still valuable. If dust ascends to heaven, it remains valueless.”

Ifs Stills Wisdom Fall Heaven Remains Valuable Dust Islamic Mud Gems Valueless

Author:Saadi

“When a monarchy gradually transforms itself into a republic, the executive power there preserves titles, honors, respect, and even money long after it has lost the reality of power. The English, having cut off the head of one of their kings and chased another off the throne, still go on their knees to address the successors of those princes. On the other hand, when a republic falls under one man's yoke, the ruler's demeanor remains simple, unaffected, and modest, as if he had not already been raised above everybody.”

Source: Democracy in America

“Community is another such phenomenon. Like electricity, it is profoundly lawful. Yet there remains something about it that is inherently mysterious, miraculous, unfathomable. Thus there is no adequate one-sentence definition of genuine community. Community is something more than the sum of its parts, its individual members. What is this "something more?" Even to begin to answer that, we enter a realm that is not so much abstract as almost mystical. It is a realm where words are never fully suitable and language itself falls short.”

Source: The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace

“A raised weight can produce work, but in doing so it must necessarily sink from its height, and, when it has fallen as deep as it can fall, its gravity remains as before, but it can no longer do work.”

Fall Produce Weight Remains Raised Height Fallen Gravity

Book:Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays

Source: Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays

“Let us not lose the Bible, but with diligence, in fear and invocation of God, read and preach it. While that remains and flourishes, all prospers with the state; 'tis head and empress of all arts and faculties. Let but divinity fall, and I would not give a straw for the rest.”

Giving Art States Fall Loses Remains Divinity Faculty Diligence Straws Invocation Empresses

Book:The Table Talk of Martin Luther

Source: The Table Talk of Martin Luther

“This truth remains: Only those you care about can hurt you. You expect more from them-after all, you've given more of yourself to them. The higher the expectations, the greater the fall.”

Care Fall Given Hurt Greater Higher Expectations Remains

Book:The Bait of Satan, 20th Anniversary Edition: Living Free from the Deadly Trap of Offense

Source: The Bait of Satan, 20th Anniversary Edition: Living Free from the Deadly Trap of Offense

“All Empires fall, All ages die, All strife shall be in vain. All Kings go down, All hope must fail, But Tanelorn remains Our Tanelorn remains.”

Age Dies Fall Failing Kings Remains Vain Empires Strife

Author:Michael Moorcock

“Do not worry about tricks and cheaters. If some people are trying to trap and hurt you, Allah is also trapping them. Hole diggers will always fall in their holes. No bad remains unpunished, and no good remains without being awarded, so have faith in justice and let the rest be.”

People Ifs Trying Fall Hurt Justice Worry Remains Tricks Holes Have Faith Traps Cheater

Author:Shams Tabrizi