Why, if the Soul can fling the Dust aside, And dwell with the Divine, shall it abide In Sin and Error while the Flesh endures, And still rebel, howe'er the Spirit chide?
Poet, mathematician, astronomer
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Stanza LXII
c. 11th-12th century
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