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" As the bee collects nectar and departs without injuring the flower, or its color or scent, so let a sage dwell in his village. "
The Atlantic Monthly - Page 331
1894
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Buddhaghosha's Parables

Buddhaghosa - Tipiṭaka - 1870 - 392 pages
...gathering flowers, and \ ( whose mind is distracted, before he is satiated in hi^ \j>leasures. 49. As the bee collects nectar and departs without injuring the flower, or its colour and scent, so let the sage dwell on earth. 50. Not the failures of others, not their sins of...
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Buddhaghosha's parables, tr. by T. Rogers. With an intr., containing Buddha ...

Buddhaghosa (theologian.) - 1870 - 410 pages
...who is gathering flowers, and whose mind is distracted, before he is satiated in his pleasures. 49. As the bee collects nectar and departs without injuring the flower, or its colour and scent, so let the sage dwell on earth. 50. Not the failures of others, not their sins of...
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Chapters from the Bible of the Ages

Giles Badger Stebbins - Religious literature - 1872 - 416 pages
...mirage, will break the flower-pointed arrow of Mara (the tempter), and never see the King of Death. As the bee collects nectar and departs without injuring the flower, or its color or perfume, so let the sage dwell on earth. Like a beautiful flower, full of color but without perfume,...
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Chapters from the Bible of the Ages

Giles Badger Stebbins - Religious literature - 1872 - 408 pages
...mirage, will break the flower-pointed arrow of Mara (the tempter), and never see the King of Death. As the bee collects nectar and departs without injuring the flower, or its color or perfume, so let the sage dwell on earth. Like a beautiful flower, full of color but without perfume,...
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The Childhood of Religions: Embracing a Simple Account of the Birth and ...

Edward Clodd - Creation - 1875 - 312 pages
...perceive, very artful, and they rush wherever they list ; thoughts well guarded bring happiness.' ' As the bee collects nectar, and departs without injuring the flower, or its colour and scent, so let the sage dwell on earth.' ' Like a beautiful flower, full of colour but without...
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Illustrated History of Ancient Literature, Oriental and Classical

John Duncan Quackenbos - Classical literature - 1878 - 438 pages
...full of color but without scent, are the fine but fruitless words of him who does not act accordingly. As the bee collects nectar, and departs without injuring the flower, or its color and scent, so let the sage dwell on earth. Let no man think lightly of evil, saying in his heart, '...
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The childhood of religions. Special ed. for sch

Edward Clodd - 1878 - 296 pages
...perceive, very artful, and they rush wherever they list ; thoughts well guarded bring happiness.' ' As the bee collects nectar, and departs without injuring the flower, or its colour and scent, so let the sage dwell on earth.' ' Like a beautiful flower, full of colour but without...
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The Dhammapada: A Collection of Verses : Being One of the Canonical Books of ...

Friedrich Max Müller - Buddhism - 1881 - 444 pages
...who is gathering flowers, and whose mind is distracted, before he is satiated in his pleasures. 49. As the bee collects nectar and departs without injuring the flower, or its colour or scent, so let a sage dwell in his village. 50. Not the perversities of others, not their...
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The Dhammapada

Friedrich Max Müller - Buddhism - 1881 - 412 pages
...who is gathering flowers, and whose mind is distracted, before he is satiated in his pleasures. 49. As the bee collects nectar and departs without injuring the flower, or its colour or scent, so let a sage dwell in his village. 50. Not the perversities of others, not their...
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Frank Leslie's Sunday Magazine, Volume 12

1882 - 684 pages
...Uncreated, who has out all ties, removed all temptations, renounced all desires, he is the greatest of men. As the bee collects nectar and departs without injuring...or its scent, so let a sage dwell in his village. When the learned man drives away vanity by earnestness, he, the wise, climbing the terraced bights...
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