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A diamond was laying in the street covered with dirt. Many fools passed by. Someone who knew diamonds picked it up.
Kabir
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Kabir
Age: 78 †
Born: 1440
Born: January 1
Died: 1518
Died: January 1
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If you don't break your ropes while you're alive, do you think ghosts will do it after?
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A learned man's knowledge will be of no avail to him if he doesn't have control over his tongue
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The instruction of the foolish is a waste of knowledge soap cannot wash charcoal white.
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When the Guest is being searched for, it is the intensity of the longing for the Guest that does all the work. Look at me, and you will see a slave of that intensity.
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