“A ruddy drop of manly blood
The surging sea outweighs;
The world uncertain comes and goes,
The lover rooted stays.”
Epigraph to Friendship
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Essays, First Series
Variant: A ruddy drop of manly blood
The surging sea outweighs;
The world uncertain comes and goes,
The lover rooted stays.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson 727
American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803–1882Related quotes
“If it comes, let it come. If it stays, let it stay. If it goes, let it go.”
Two By Two
“Dear, as the light that visits these sad eyes;
Dear, as the ruddy drops that warm my heart.”
I. 3. lines 39-40
The Bard (1757)
“Inside ourselves there lies the root of good:
the heart outweighs all talents on this earth.”
Source: The Tale of Kiều (1813), Lines 3251–3252
As quoted in Al-Jaami' al-Saghîr by Imam al-Suyuti, where it is declared a "weak Hadith".
Variant translations:
The ink of the scholar is holier than the blood of the martyr.
The Islamic Review, Vol. 22 (1934), p. 105, edited by Khwajah Kamal al-Din
The ink of scholars will be weighed in the scale with the blood of martyrs.
As quoted in Knowledge of God in Classical Sufism: Foundations of Islamic Mystical Theology (2004) by John Renard
Sunni Hadith
“The Sea
Will be the Sea
Whatever the drop's philosophy.”
As quoted in The Sun at Midnight : The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis (2003) by Laurence Galian
“A drop
Melting into the sea,
Everyone can see.
But the sea
Absorped
In a drop —
A rare one
can follow!”
Azfar Hussain translations
Sec. 70
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)