Dhammapada

Appamadavagga ⧸ Gāthā 28

Pamādaṃ appamādena yadā nudati paṇḍito
Paññāpāsādamāruyha asoko sokiniṃ pajaṃ
Pabbataṭṭho va bhummaṭṭhe dhīro bāle avekkhati

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On Earnestness ⧸ Verse 28

When the pandit putteth away
Carelessness by earnestness,
Ascending unsorrowing
To the palace-roof of intellect,
That wise one looketh on a sorrowing race,
Yea, upon fools,
Even as a mountaineer upon a groundling.
English translation by Albert Edmunds, from Hymns of the Faith (Dhammapada) (1902).

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