Samaritan Mark's Parallel for the Good Tree Parable?

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Samaritan Mark's Parallel for the Good Tree Parable?

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It is our duty to be a tree good to behold, crowned with goodly fruits, and to hasten to acquire wisdom and fill our souls with what the True One taught us. It does not behove us to leave ourselves like a waste land which has nothing in it, or like a tree without fruits, for an end has to be made of it.1 We were created rather to acquire the wisdom of our ancestors, as is fitting [Mimar Marqah 3 I 55, II 88]

Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit, but the evil tree bringeth Arabic, forth evil fruit. The good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can the evil tree bring forth good fruit. The good man from the good treasures that are in his heart bringeth forth good things; and the evil man from the evil treasures that are in his heart bringeth forth evil things: and from the overflowings of the heart the lips speak. Every tree that beareth not good fruit is cut down and cast, into the fire. Therefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
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Re: Samaritan Mark's Parallel for the Good Tree Parable?

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When you look at the context of the statement in the Mimar it seems to be tacked on to another discussion entirely or as a series of fragments.
“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
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