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... beautiful teachings contained in the chapters On Women , The Family of Imran , and The Cow . The child was like the sands of the desert , which drink up the rain - drops without losing a single one ; he never wearied of chanting this ...
... beautiful teachings contained in the chapters On Women , The Family of Imran , and The Cow . The child was like the sands of the desert , which drink up the rain - drops without losing a single one ; he never wearied of chanting this ...
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... beautiful than the stars in a summer sky . Hafiz told them as he had re- ceived them from his fathers , and Abdallah repeated them with the like ardour and faith . Sometimes it was of David , the blacksmith king , to whom God taught the ...
... beautiful than the stars in a summer sky . Hafiz told them as he had re- ceived them from his fathers , and Abdallah repeated them with the like ardour and faith . Sometimes it was of David , the blacksmith king , to whom God taught the ...
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... beautiful words , which one of the faithful alone could utter . Hafiz was one of the faithful , but he was also a Bedouin , proud of his race — a soldier who loved the fray of battle . 66 Think , my son , " he would often say to Ab ...
... beautiful words , which one of the faithful alone could utter . Hafiz was one of the faithful , but he was also a Bedouin , proud of his race — a soldier who loved the fray of battle . 66 Think , my son , " he would often say to Ab ...
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... beautiful indeed in his long blue robe , confined at the waist by a leather thong passed half a score of times round his body . His thick brown hair shaded his face , and fell in curls upon his neck from under his hood . His eyes ...
... beautiful indeed in his long blue robe , confined at the waist by a leather thong passed half a score of times round his body . His thick brown hair shaded his face , and fell in curls upon his neck from under his hood . His eyes ...
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... beautiful to live like the lark , free in space ; but sooner or later all are snared like it . The douro is the king of the world , and the day comes when the bravest , like the wisest , is the servant of the richest . " " I know ...
... beautiful to live like the lark , free in space ; but sooner or later all are snared like it . The douro is the king of the world , and the day comes when the bravest , like the wisest , is the servant of the richest . " " I know ...
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