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Contentment. Charles Stuart Calverley	After The Manner Of Horace. Friend, there be they on whom mishap Or never or so rarely comes, That, when they think thereof, they snap...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
CONTENTMENT Thomas Anderson	I found this place , within my Soul A solemn place , without control It helps me know , that I am loved With shining light , from up above An...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
A Hymn to Contentment Thomas Parnell	Lovely, lasting peace of mind! Sweet delight of human-kind! Heavenly-born, and bred on high, To crown the fav'rites of the sky With more of happiness...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Hymn to Contentment Thomas Parnell	Lovely, lasting peace of mind! Sweet delight of human-kind! Heavenly-born, and bred on high, To crown the fav'rites of the sky With more of happiness...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ch 03 On The Excellence Of Contentment Story 01 Sa di	A Maghrabi supplicant said in Aleppo in the row of linen-drapers: ‘Lords of wealth, if you were just and we contented, the trade of begging would...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ch 03 On The Excellence Of Contentment Story 02 Sa di	Two sons of amirs were in Egypt, the one acquiring science, the other accumulating wealth, till the former became the ullemma of the period and the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ch 03 On The Excellence Of Contentment Story 03 Sa di	I heard that a dervish, burning in the fire of poverty and sewing patch upon patch, said to comfort his...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ch 03 On The Excellence Of Contentment Story 04 Sa di	One of the kings of Persia had sent an able physician to wait upon the Mustafa, the benediction of Allah and peace be on him; and he remained for...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ch 03 On The Excellence Of Contentment Story 05 Sa di	A man often made vows of repentance but broke them again till one of the sheikhs said to him: ‘I think thou art in the habit of eating a great deal...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ch 03 On The Excellence Of Contentment Story 06 Sa di	It is narrated in the life of Ardeshir Babekan that he asked an Arab physician how much food he must consume daily. He replied: ‘The weight of one...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ch 03 On The Excellence Of Contentment Story 07 Sa di	Two Khorasani dervishes travelled together. One of them, being weak, broke his fast every second night whilst the other who was strong consumed every...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ch 03 On The Excellence Of Contentment Story 08 Sa di	One of the philosophers forbade his son to eat much because repletion keeps people ailing. The boy replied: ‘O father, it is hunger that kills. Hast...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ch 03 On The Excellence Of Contentment Story 09 Sa di	A sick man having been asked what his heart desired replied: ‘That it may not desire...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ch 03 On The Excellence Of Contentment Story 10 Sa di	A grain dealer to whom Sufis were owing some money asked them for it every day in the town of Waset and used harsh language towards them. The...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ch 03 On The Excellence Of Contentment Story 11 Sa di	A brave warrior who had received a dreadful wound in the Tatar war was informed that a certain merchant possessed a medicine which he would probably...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ch 03 On The Excellence Of Contentment Story 12 Sa di	One of the ullemma had many eaters to provide for and only a slender income. This fact he communicated to a great man of whose character he...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ch 03 On The Excellence Of Contentment Story 13 Sa di	A dervish wanted something and a man told him that a certain individual possessed untold wealth who, if he were made aware of his want, would not...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ch 03 On The Excellence Of Contentment Story 14 Sa di	A year of dearth set in at Alexandria so that even a dervish lost the reins of patience from his hands, the pearls of heaven were withheld from the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ch 03 On The Excellence Of Contentment Story 15 Sa di	Hatim Tai, having been asked whether he had seen in the world anyone of more exalted sentiments than himself, replied: ‘Yes, one day I slaughtered...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ch 03 On The Excellence Of Contentment Story 16 Sa di	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...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ch 03 On The Excellence Of Contentment Story 18 Sa di	An Arab suffering in the desert from extreme thirst...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ch 03 On The Excellence Of Contentment Story 19 Sa di	I never lamented about the vicissitudes of time or complained of the turns of fortune except on the occasion when I was barefooted and unable to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ch 03 On The Excellence Of Contentment Story 20 Sa di	A king with some of his courtiers had during a hunting party and in the winter season strayed far from inhabited places but when the night set in he...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ch 03 On The Excellence Of Contentment Story 21 Sa di	It is related that a sultan thus addressed a miserly beggar who had accumulated great riches: ‘It is evident that thou possessest boundless wealth...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ch 03 On The Excellence Of Contentment Story 22 Sa di	I met a trader who possessed one hundred and fifty camel loads of merchandise with forty slaves and servants. One evening in the oasis of Kish he...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)