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If a man has ten good qualities and one bad one, to look at the ten and forget the one, and if a man has ten bad qualities and one good one, to look at the one and forget the ten.

Abdu'l-Baha

I beseech you, one and all, to add your prayers to mine to the end that war and bloodshed cease, and that love, friendship, peace and unity reign in the world.
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Beseech Bloodshed Cease Friendship Love Mine Peace Prayer Unity War
The principal reason for the decline and fall of peoples is ignorance.
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Decline Fall Ignorance People Principal Reason
To be a Baha’i simply means to love all the world; to love humanity and try to serve it; to work for universal peace and universal brotherhood.
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Brotherhood Humanity Love Peace Religious Universal
Religion and science are the two wings upon which man’s intelligence can soar into the heights, with which the human soul can progress.
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Fall Hand Human Intelligence Man Men Progress Religion Science Soar Wing
The reality of man is his thought, not his material body. The thought force and the animal force are partners. Although man is part of the animal creation, he possesses a power of thought superior to all other created beings.
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Animal Body Force Man Material Partner Reality
Therefore, in this world he must prepare himself for the life beyond. That which he needs in the world of the Kingdom must be obtained here.
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Beyond Book Kingdom Must Obtained Need World
It is good to laugh. Laughter is spiritual relaxation.
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Good Laughing Laughter Relaxation Spiritual
Let us have love and more love; a love that melts all opposition, a love that conquers all foes.
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Conquer Foe Love Melt Opposition Tolerance Triumph
All down the ages we see how blood has stained the surface of the earth; but now a ray of greater light has come
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Ages Blood Down Greater Intelligence Light Man
No harm will happen to the bounty of the sun, which is everlasting. This spirit has the power of discovery; it encompasses all things.
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Bounty Discovery Everlasting Happen Harm Sun
Every kind of knowledge, every science, is as a tree: if the fruit of it be the love of God, then is it a blessed tree, but if not, that tree is but dried-up wood, and shall only feed the fire
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Blessed Fire Fruit God Knowledge Science Tree
It is your duty to be exceedingly kind to every human being…until ye change the world of man into the world of God.
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Baha Change Duty Exceedingly God Man Men World
The more ye persevere in this most important task, the more will ye witness the confirmations of God, to such a degree that ye yourselves will be astonished.
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Astonished Confirmation Degree Important More Most Persevere Task
The woman has greater moral courage than the man; she has also special gifts which enable her to govern in moments of danger and crisis. If necessary she can become a warrior.
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Courage Crisis Danger Moment Woman
To find that Bahá’í young people, each and all, are known throughout the world for their intellectual attainmen
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Attainment Intellectual Known People Throughout World Young
Divine things are too deep to be expressed by common words. The heavenly teachings are expressed in parable in order to be understood and preserved for ages to come.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Expressed Heavenly Ocean Parable Spiritual Teaching Understood

If a man has ten good qualities and one bad one, to look at the ten and forget the one, and if a man has ten bad qualities and one good one, to look at the one and forget the ten.

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If a man has ten good qualities and one bad one, to look at the ten and forget the one, and if a man has ten bad qualities and one good one, to look at the one and forget the ten.

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