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The Masnavi is Rumi's long didactic poem, and this line closes a passage about turning admiration into practice. The instruction is that the quality you admire in something should show up in your own daily conduct.
Source: The Masnavi
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.
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.
The harder you work for something, the greater you will feel when you achieve it.