One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.
One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.
The sages say that life is illusion, but does that change its poignancy.
Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old wizards, old rich people.
The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.
The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.
Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing.
Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.
Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
When sages commend excess, Desire is sick.
In the world we live in, one fool makes many fools, but one sage only a few sages.
Rhodora If the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being.
We must believe what is good and true about the prophets, that they were sages, that they did understand what proceeded from their mouths, and that they bore prudence on their lips.
... the fools of this world prefer to look for sages far away. They don't believe that the wisdom of their own mind is the sage ... the sutras say, 'Mind is the teaching.' But people of no understanding don't believe in their own mind or that by understanding this teaching they can become a sage. They prefer to look for distant knowledge and long for things in space, buddha-images, light, incense, and colors. They fall prey to falsehood and lose their minds to insanity.
O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
One of the sages of the Talmud taught nearly 200 years ago that God could have created a plant that would grow loaves of bread. Instead He created wheat for us to mill and bake into bread. Why So that we could be HIs partners in completing the work of creation.
As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children.
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