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... elephant with a young lotus - fibre : as one who tries to cut the diamond with a filament of sirisha ; or as one who desires to make the salt sea sweet with a drop of honey . 7. The Creator has given man , as it were , a cloak to ...
... elephant with a young lotus - fibre : as one who tries to cut the diamond with a filament of sirisha ; or as one who desires to make the salt sea sweet with a drop of honey . 7. The Creator has given man , as it were , a cloak to ...
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... elephant who is infuriated by passion . 18. The Creator in his anger may hinder the swan from sporting in the lotus - bed , his dwelling ; but he cannot take away his faculty of separating milk from water . 19. Bracelets are no ornament ...
... elephant who is infuriated by passion . 18. The Creator in his anger may hinder the swan from sporting in the lotus - bed , his dwelling ; but he cannot take away his faculty of separating milk from water . 19. Bracelets are no ornament ...
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... elephant which he has crushed in pieces . How should he , the mightiest of living things , feed upon withered grass ! 30. A dog rejoices over a small filthy bone of an ox which he has found stripped of flesh , though it satisfies not ...
... elephant which he has crushed in pieces . How should he , the mightiest of living things , feed upon withered grass ! 30. A dog rejoices over a small filthy bone of an ox which he has found stripped of flesh , though it satisfies not ...
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... elephant infu- riated with passion . The energy of the noble - minded man proceeds from his natural disposition , not from his youth . Praise of Riches . 39. Our noble birth may go to the lower regions ; our virtues may perish ; our ...
... elephant infu- riated with passion . The energy of the noble - minded man proceeds from his natural disposition , not from his youth . Praise of Riches . 39. Our noble birth may go to the lower regions ; our virtues may perish ; our ...
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... elephant is weakened by passion ; the islands in a river become dry in the autumn ; the moon wanes ; young women become languid through pleasure , yet is their beauty nothing lessened : so noble men who have diminished their wealth by ...
... elephant is weakened by passion ; the islands in a river become dry in the autumn ; the moon wanes ; young women become languid through pleasure , yet is their beauty nothing lessened : so noble men who have diminished their wealth by ...
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