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The Alchemy of Happiness
Concerning Music and Dancing as Aids to the Religious Life (10)
But, till thou drink it, no joy is thine.
Life of Pythagoras
SELECT SENTENCES OF SEXTUS THE PYTHAGOREAN. (32)
Every cup should be sweet to you which extinguishes thirst. Fly from intoxication as you would from insanity. No good originates from the body.
The Complete Sayings of Jesus
LXXVI. Christ Institutes His Holy Supper—judas the Betrayer—peter's Three Denials Predicted—"yet a Little While I Am with You: Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled"—many Mansions (49)
Verily I say unto you, I will drink henceforth no more of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in the kingdom of God,...
Book of Enoch
Chapter XCVI (6)
Woe to you who drink water from every fountain, For suddenly shall ye be consumed and wither away, Because ye have forsaken the fountain of life.
The Masnavi
Prologue (31-40)
It can hold no more than one day's store. The pitcher of the desire of the covetous never fills, The oyster-shell fills not with pearls till it is...
Divine Comedy
Purgatorio: Canto XXVIII (6)
The water which thou seest springs not from vein Restored by vapour that the cold condenses, Like to a stream that gains or loses breath; But issues...
Dhammapada
Chapter XVIII: Impurity (247)
And the man who gives himself to drinking intoxicating liquors, he, even in this world, digs up his own root.
Chapter 10: Of the Sixth qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (75)
Hearken, thou hast the sweet Water in thee, pour that into the Fire, and then it goes out: If thou lettest it burn, then it consumes in thee the Sap,...
Chapter 10: Of the Sixth qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (78)
And whilst it is but glimmering, it is only a gentle soft longing Delight, or pleasing Lust in thee, and does not consume thee; but if thy Heart be in...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter VII (6)
And he rejoiced and drank of this wine, he and his children with joy*
Dhammapada
Chapter XXIV: Thirst (335)
Whomsoever this fierce thirst overcomes, full of poison, in this world, his sufferings increase like the abounding Bîrana grass.
The Complete Sayings of Jesus
LXXV. Conspiracy at the High Priest's Palace—judas Hired—the Passover Supper—christ's Humility: He Washes the Feet of the Twelve (15)
Take this, and divide it among yourselves: for I say unto you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine, until the kingdom of God shall come.
Chapter 10: Of the Sixth qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (122)
Now eat and drink, now trim and dress thyself therewith, and domineer therein, thou fair Goddess, how art thou become a Whore, and thy Shame and...
Corpus Hermeticum
7. The Greatest Ill Among Men Is Ignorance of God (1)
Whither stumble ye, sots, who have sopped up the wine of ignorance and can so far not carry it that ye already even spew it forth? Stay ye, be sober,...
Dhammapada
Chapter VI: The Wise Man (Pandita) (79)
He who drinks in the law lives happily with a serene mind: the sage rejoices always in the law, as preached by the elect (Ariyas).
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter II: The Subject of Plagiarisms Resumed. the Greeks Plagiarized From One Another. (24)
"Above the gods' best gift to men ranks wine, In measure drunk; but in excess the worst."
The Masnavi
The King and his Three Sons (161-170)
I have never tasted wine sweeter than this poison, No health can be sweeter than this sickness! No devotion is better than this sin (of love), Years...
The Masnavi
The King and his Three Sons (1-10)
Be not intoxicated with these goblets of forms, Pass by these cups full of forms, linger not; There is wine in the cups, but it proceeds not from...
The Complete Sayings of Jesus
IX. John Extols Jesus—the Woman at the Well—"one Soweth, and Another Reapeth" (11)
Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again; but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that...
Divine Comedy
Paradiso: Canto XXX (4)
And even as the penthouse of mine eyelids Drank of it, it forthwith appeared to me Out of its length to be transformed to round. Then as a folk who ha...
The Masnavi
The Drunken Turkish Amir and the Minstrel (1-10)
"I know not if thou art a moon or an idol, I know not what service to pay thee, Thou art not apart from me, yet, strange to say, I know not where I...
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