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Originally Posted by Fool Zero
I went looking for whatever I could find about the verse and where it's from. It seems to get quoted a fair bit, usually credited to the same author (whose name is variously rendered as Sadi, Saadi or Sa'di). Here's his Wikipedia article: Saadi (poet).
Blogger Priscilla Stuckey writes:
GIGA Quotes credits it to Saadi in the Gulistan apparently without question but although they give more detailed citations for some other quotes they don't happen to, for this one. 
Anyway, thanks, Fuzzybear, for posting the quote and while I'm at it... |
Thanks Fool Zero for the valueable comments. You point about the exact citation was a good one and made me research more. And now I have found a connection between these words and Sadi's verses in Gulistan:
http://www.archive.org/stream/cu3192...e/n11/mode/2up
This book named "In Sadi's rose garden" was privately published by John Terry White in 1907 for his friends. You can find this verse at the bottom of the left page. A beautiful book by John T. White nevertheless and you will find a lot of other great verses. So I think the lines cannot be directly attributed to Sadi, but the theme definitely relates to the meassage of Sadi.