Pebbles, Pearls and Gems of the OrientG. H. Ellis, 1882 - 238 pages |
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Alger art thou beauty Bhartrihari Bhavabhuti birds blessings bliss Brahma breast bright Century B.C. Chandogya Upanishad child Chinese Confucius Chinese Lao Tsze Chinese Mencius Confucius Conway cried dear divine dwell earth eternal fair fate father flame flower fruit Gita Govinda glory glow hast hath heart heaven Hindu Bhartrihari Hindu Buddha Hindu Hitopadesa Hindu Kabir Hindu Mahabharata Hindu Panchatantra Hindu Vriddha Chanakya Indian Epic Poetry Katha Upanishad king light live lord Max Müller mighty moon mourned ne'er never o'er ocean pain pearl Persian Dschami Persian Dschelaleddin Rumi Persian Ferideddin Attar Persian Hafiz Persian Saadi praise Ramayana Rig Veda Roebuck rose Sáki Satyavan Savitri Simorg skies sorrow soul spake spirit Sufi sweet Talmud Tauriz thee thine thou art thought thyself tree truth Upanishad veil Vemana Vishnu Vishnu Purana wife wine wise words Yama
Popular passages
Page 207 - There was the Door to which I found no Key; There was the Veil through which I could not see: Some little talk awhile of Me and Thee There was — and then no more of Thee and Me.
Page 207 - Yet Ah, that Spring should vanish with the Rose ! That Youth's sweet-scented manuscript should close! The Nightingale that in the branches sang, Ah whence, and whither flown again, who knows!
Page 120 - Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life?" The Master said, "Is not RECIPROCITY such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
Page 125 - Learn from yon orient shell to love thy foe, And store with pearls the hand that brings thee woe : Free, like yon rock, from base vindictive pride, Emblaze with gems the wrist that rends thy side : Mark where yon tree rewards the stony shower With fruit nectareous, or the balmy flower : All Nature calls aloud — " Shall man do less Than heal the smiter, and the railer bless ?
Page 208 - Strange, is it not? that of the myriads who Before us pass'd the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the Road, ' "* Which to discover we must travel too.
Page 207 - The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes — or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two — is gone.
Page 208 - I sent my Soul through the Invisible, Some letter of that After-life to spell: And by and by my Soul returned to me, And answered "I Myself am Heaven and Hell...
Page 193 - Where one sees nothing else, hears nothing else, understands nothing else, that is the Infinite. Where one sees something else, hears something else, understands something else, that is the finite. The Infinite is immortal, the finite is mortal.
Page 207 - Ah, my Beloved, fill the Cup that clears To-day of past Regrets and future Fears : To-morrow! — Why, To-morrow I may be Myself with Yesterday's Sev'n thousand Years.
Page 111 - Shine for us with thy best rays, thou bright Dawn, thou who lengthenest our life, thou the love of all, who givest us food, who givest us wealth in cows, horses, and chariots. Thou, daughter of the sky, thou, high born Dawn, whom the Vasishthas magnify with songs, give us riches high and wide...