Let your eye be chaste, your hand faithful, your tongue truthful and your heart enlightened.
BAHA'U'LLAHIn all matters moderation is desirable. If a thing is carried to excess, it will prove a source of evil.
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So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.
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My Calamity is my providence, outwardly it is fire and vengeance, but inwardly it is light and mercy.
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Let not a man glory in this, that he loves his country; let him rather glory in this, that he loves his kind…
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The true seeker hunts naught but the object of his quest, and the lover has no desire save union with his Beloved.
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Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path.
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Regard man as a mine rich in gems of inestimable value. Education can, alone, cause it to reveal its treasures, and enable mankind to benefit there from.
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Speak no evil, that thou mayest not hear it spoken unto thee, and magnify not the faults of others that thine own faults may not appear great.
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Justice and equity are twin Guardians that watch over men. From them are revealed such blessed and perspicuous words as are the cause of the well-being of the world and the protection of the nations.
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It is incumbent upon everyone to aid those daysprings of authority and sources of command who are adorned with the ornamant of equity and justice.
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Know thou that every fixed star hath its own planets, and every planet its own creatures, whose number no man can compute.
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The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens.
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I bear witness, O my God, that Thou hast created me to know Thee and to worship Thee. I testify, at this moment, to my powerlessness and to Thy might, to my poverty and to Thy wealth. There is none other God but Thee, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting.
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Be generous in prosperity, and thankful in adversity.
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Bring thyself to account each day ere thou art summoned to a reckoning; for death, unheralded, shall come upon thee and thou shalt be called to give account for thy deeds.
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Holy words and pure and goodly deeds ascend unto the heaven of celestial glory.
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