He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.
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With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.
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Splitter Splatter
Splitter splatter, splitter splatter
The rain tumbles, the rain scatters
Such a day for rubber boots
Such a day for a poncho suit
What a moment to kiss my fella
Under this polka dot umbrella
The muddy puddles, we straddle
Should have brought a wooden paddle
The rain's no more a pitter patter
The rain is now a splitter splatter
Splitter splatter, splitter splatter
The rain tumbles, the rain scatters
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It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
A gracious woman obtains honor, and strong men obtain riches.
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power.
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Whether that coherence obtains universally is a question that need not be answered here since only those parts where the coherence has actually been found become part of Science.
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He who has nothing to do, scatters and gathers.
He that scatters thorns, let him not go barefoot.
Ch 03 On The Excellence Of Contentment Story 16
Moses, to whom be salutation, beheld a dervish who had on account of his nudity concealed himself in the sand exclaiming: ‘O Moses, utter a supplication to God the most high to give me an allowance because I am, on account of my distress, on the point of starvation.’ Moses accordingly prayed and departed but returning a few days afterwards he saw that the dervish was a prisoner and surrounded by a crowd of people. On asking for the reason he was informed that the dervish had drunk wine, quarrelled, slain a man and was to be executed in retaliation.
If the humble cat possessed wings
He would rob the world of every sparrow-egg.
It may happen that when a weak man obtains power
He arises and twists the hands of the weak.
And if Allah were to bestow abundance upon his servants, they would certainly rebel upon earth.
What has made thee wade into danger, O fool,
Till thou hast perished. Would that the ant had not been able to fly!
When a base fellow obtains dignity, silver and gold,
His head necessarily demands to be knocked.
Was not after all this maxim uttered by a sage?
‘That ant is the best which possesses no wings.’
The heavenly father has plenty of honey but the son has a hot disease.
He who does not make thee rich
Knows better what is good for thee than thyself.
Those Experiences One Obtains
Those experiences one obtains,
Are rarely exchanged.
Or can be teachable.
With the elimination of pain.
Or whatever it took to experience.
With a doing of it.
Some believe they can sit in classrooms.
And be taught common sense.
By the taking of notes.
Or stare out of windows daydreaming.
Thinking they can float through life,
Portraying one conscious and knowledgeable
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Truth raises against itself the storm that scatters its seeds broadcast.
aphorism by Rabindranath Tagore from Stray Birds (1916), translated by Rabindranath Tagore
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