“We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us.”

—  Rumi

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Source: Frequently quoted on social media, but appears to be a misquote of Thomas Browne's "We carry within us the wonders we seek without us: there is all Africa and her prodigies in us" in Religio Medici (1643) pt. 1, sect. 15.

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Iranian poet 1207–1273

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