“For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder, a snake”
Salman Rushdie book Midnight's Children
Source: Midnight's Children
“Trusting in God is a price to every dear thing and a ladder to every high thing.”
[Baqir Sharīf al-Qurashi, The life of Imam Muhammad al-Jawad, Wonderful Maxims and Arts, 2005]
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