THE KURAL
1296. What is my Heart good for ? It is good for nothing else but to devour me when I am musing alone.
1297. Fallen into the company of this foolish Heart that knoweth not to preserve its self-respect by forgetting him, I have myself forgotten my dignity.
1298. My life of a Heart thinketh it a disgrace to our own selves if we humiliate the beloved : and so it is always partial to him.
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1299. Who will support a man in his grief, if the Heart of his beloved itself refuseth him help ?
1300. When my own heart is not on my side,[1] is it a wonder that strangers[2] care not at all for me ?
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