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Tirrukural, the - Book 1 Love
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Tirrukural, the - Book 1 Love
71. Can love be latched and hidden? A trickling tear
Will proclaim it loud.
72. The loveless grasp all; while the loving
With their very bones help others.
73. The soul, it is said, is enclosed in bones
That human love may be.
74. From love, devotion comes; and from that unsought
Priceless enlightenment.
75. Bliss hereafter is the fruit, they say,
Of a loving life here.
76. "Love helps only virtue", say the fools:
But it also cures vice.
77. As boneless worms wither in the sun, so too
The loveless in a just world.
78. A loveless life is a withered tree that would fain
Sprout in a desert.
79. What good are outward features if they lack
Love, the inward sense?
80. Love's way is life; without it humans are
But bones skin-clad.