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As long as the shackles of wealth and property bind us, we will remain accursed forever and never attain the altar of humanity, which is life’s ultimate goal.

Munshi Premchand

If someone ensures us two square meals a day, we will sing and pray all our waking hours. If one has to hoe sugarcane all day, devotion to God vanishes like smoke.
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Devotion God Prayer Smoke Wake Up
Parents are one’s companions in life but not partakers of one’s karma.
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Friendship Karma Life Oneself Parents
Like timidity, bravery is also contagious.
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Brave Inspirational Timid
Illness and problems are the specialties of life. But the death of a child is a cause of mental agony which can be overcome if one concedes this world to be a stage or stadium wherein praiseworthy are those who are not proud of their achievement and those who do not cry at their defeat.
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Achievement Cry Death Defeat Life Mental Praise Problem Proud Sick
Beauty doesn’t need ornaments. Softness can’t bear the weight of ornaments.
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Beautiful Jewel Need Soft
Since the day Brahma created the world to this day, no one’s ever been able to satisfy a wedding guest. They always find some opportunity or other to find fault and criticise. One who can’t even afford a dry piece of bread at home becomes a lord at the wedding party.
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Creation Home Mistake Opportunity Party Pieces Satisfaction World
Boys are quite often whimsical. Whereas girls are modest by nature and know their responsibilities very well. Their weapons are service, sacrifice, and love, by which they conquer over the males.
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Boy Love Man Nature Quite Responsibility Sacrifice Service Weapon
My life is simple and rough.
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Life Rough Simplicity
The world assumes that we are very happy with high mansions, fine carriages, servants and attendants, huge investments, and concubines. But he who is without the honor and strength of the soul can be anything but happy.
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Happiness Money Respect Soul Strength World
I believe that if man and woman cherish the same ideals and think alike, then the marriage can be complementary to each other’s work instead of being a hindrance.
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Believe Ideal Man Marriage Thinking Togetherness Woman Work
Trees bear fruits only to be eaten by others; the fields grown grains, but they are consumed by the world. Cows give milk, but she doesn’t drink it herself – that is left to others. Clouds send rain only to quench the parched earth. In such giving, there is little space for selfishness.
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Drink Milk Rain Selfish Space Tree World
A household can never appear prosperous without a cow. How auspicious it is to wake up in the morning to the mooing of your own cow!
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Animal Cow Morning Prosperity Yourself
If brothers don’t help each other in times of need, how do you think life will ever go on?
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Brother Each Other Help Life Thinking
People are so selfish. Those you help are the ones who turn against you.
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Help People Selfish Turn
I will not call that person happy who knows no rest because of his enemies, who is the butt of fun by all and for whom no one has any empathy, who is as if held on a leash by others, who has lost himself in hedonistic pursuits, who preys on those weaker to him and wags his tail for his superiors.
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Empathy Enemy Happiness Himself Person Pursuit Weakness
Wealth and compassion are opposites.
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Compassionate Wealth

As long as the shackles of wealth and property bind us, we will remain accursed forever and never attain the altar of humanity, which is life’s ultimate goal.

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