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The Masnavi
The Deadly Mosque (23-33)
Whilst they are boiling, they keep leaping up, Even to the top of the pot, and utter cries, Saying to the housewife, "Why do you set us on the fire? Now you have bought us, why should you afflict us?" The housewife pushes them down with her spoon, saying, "Be still, and boil well, and leap not off the fire. I do not boil you because I dislike you, When you become food you will be mingled with life; In the garden you drank water soft and fresh; Mercy was first shown to it before vengeance, That mercy might train it to be proof against trial;
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (79)
Now when the astringent or harsh and the bitter qualities get their light from the heat, then they see the sweet quality, and taste of its sweet...
Chapter 23: Of the Deep above the Earth. (103)
For their unctuosness or fatness in the sweet water is burnt up, and that water is turned into a sour stink, wherein the light of God can no more kind...
Popol Vuh
Part II, Chapter 6 (11)
When they arrived, they brought the rat with them, but they did not show it; one of them went directly into the house, and the other went to the corne...
Divine Comedy
Inferno: Canto XXII (7)
A sudden intercessor was the heat; But ne'ertheless of rising there was naught, To such degree they had their wings belimed. Lamenting with the others...
Chapter 1: Of Searching out the Divine Being in Nature: Of both the Qualities, the Good and the Evil. (33)
But if it be kindled in the element water, and springeth [becometh active] therein, it causes debility and sickness in the flesh, and finally death. O...
Popol Vuh
Part II, Chapter 9 (6)
And what the lords wanted was that they would be cut to pieces by the knives, and would be quickly killed; that is what they Wished in their hearts. B...
Enuma Elish
Tablet II (22)
"With poison instead of blood she hath filled their bodies
Enuma Elish
Tablet III (84)
"With poison instead of blood she hath filled their bodies
Popol Vuh
Part II, Chapter 3 (8)
Neither is your home here, nor must you let them force you to kill men. Later, in truth, the real criminals will be at your mercy and I will overcome ...
Divine Comedy
Purgatorio: Canto XXV (6)
"Summae Deus clementiae," in the bosom Of the great burning chanted then I heard, Which made me no less eager to turn round; And spirits saw I...
The Complete Sayings of Jesus
XXV. The Woman with the Alabaster Box of Ointment, and Simon the Pharisee: Parable of the Two Debtors (11)
I entered into thine house, thou gavest me no water for my feet: but she hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head.
The Complete Sayings of Jesus
XXXII. Home Again: a Prophet Without Honor—mission of the Twelve: Instructions, Admonitions, Sparrows, Hairs Numbered—they Set Out (25)
And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in...
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (96)
But seeing the astringent is too cold, and drieth the water too much, thereupon it captivateth the hot fire in its coldness, and killeth or destroyeth...
Popol Vuh
Part IV, Chapter 2 (10)
As soon as the latter arrived at the river, they began to wash. The two had already taken off their clothes and were bending over the stones when...
Chapter 23: Of the Deep above the Earth. (38)
There each spirit tasteth of the others, and getteth mere new strength and power, for the astringent quality grows now very pliable and yielding,...
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (99)
Then the water becometh an anguishing sweat, which stands between death and life, and so the fire of the heat cannot kindle itself: For the...
Chapter 19: Concerning the Created Heaven, and the Form of the Earth, and of the Water, as also concerning Light and Darkness. Concerning Heaven. (87)
For the thin water seeketh for the valley, and is a humility of the life, which did not exalt itself, as the astringent and the bitter qualities, and ...
Chapter 14: How Lucifer, who was the most beautiful Angel in Heaven, is become the most horrible Devil. The House of the murderous Den. (27)
But since the fire riseth up in the sweet water, therefore itself has the whip or scourge in its own power, and might have staid or kept back the astr...
Popol Vuh
Part II, Chapter 13 (6)
They arrived, then, before the lords, timid and with head bowed; they came prostrating themselves, making reverences and humiliating themselves. They...
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (86)
But when the sweet water can defend itself no longer, then anguish riseth up in it; just as in man, when he is dying, when the spirit is departing fro...
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