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Leave not the business of to-day to be done to-morrow; for who knoweth what may be thy condition to-morrow? The rose-garden, which to-day is full of flowers, when to-morrow thou wouldst pluck a rose, may not afford thee one.
Leave not the business of to-day to be done to-morrow; for who knoweth what may be thy condition to-morrow? The rose-garden, which to-day is full of flowers, when to-morrow thou wouldst pluck a rose, may not afford thee one.
In print by 1893 AD · industrial
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- Unresolved attribution · printed label: Firdausī
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- In print by 1893 AD · industrial
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- Book of Wise Sayings (1893) (1893 AD)
Saying 531 · printed source label: Firdausī · entry translator not specified
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