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The Sufism of the Rubáiyát

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Norton F. W. Hazeldine translation

This is the way of Happiness and how to live free from vain regrets; Whatsoever thy mind findeth to think, think ye only on such things as ye will never have to here unthink. Whatsoever thy hands find to do, do only such things as ye will never have to here undo. That which ye give, seek never to reclaim, nor profit make of friendship, nor from the stranger within thy gates, excepting what the law prescribes as lawful and as just, This is an old but well proven Path, and kisses from such lips as these dry never, neither parch they the mouth of the giver, or the given.

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