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The line comes from Saadi's book of advice, which mixes poetry and prose for a Persian audience of the twelfth century. Emerson translated a selection of it and gave the sentence its familiar English form.
Source: Gulistan
Quotes that share a topic with this one.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.
Iron sharpeneth iron; and a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.