According to Accounts Earthly Experience

The Barefoot Poet From Persia

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I never complained of the vicissitudes of fortune, nor suffered my face to be overcast at the revolution of the heavens, except once, when my feet were bare, and I had not the means of obtaining shoes. I came to the chief of Kufah in a state of much dejection, and saw there a man who had no feet. I returned thanks to God and acknowledged his mercies, and endured my want of shoes with patience.
– The Gulistan, or Rose Garden
Sa’di (pen name of Muslih-ud-Din, Persian poet ca. 1184-1291)
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