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Dhammapada · Chapter 23: The Elephant

Dhammapada 23.326

translated from Pāli by F. Max Müller, 1881

This mind of mine went formerly wandering about as it liked, as it listed, as it pleased; but I shall now hold it in thoroughly, as the rider who holds the hook holds in the furious elephant.

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