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Among the greatest of all great services is the education of children, and promotion of the various sciences, crafts and arts. Praised be God, ye are now exerting strenuous efforts toward this end.

Abdu'l-Baha

If others hurl their darts against you, offer them milk and honey in return; if they poison your lives, sweeten their souls.
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Dart Honey Live Milk Poison Return Soul
Happiness is a great healer to those who are ill….This has a greater effect than the remedy itself. You must always have this thought of love and affection when you visit the ailing and afflicted.
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Great Happiness Healer Remedy
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
My heart is in a constant state of thanksgiving.
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Constant Heart State Thanksgiving
In every aspect of life, purity and holiness, cleanliness and refinement, exalt the human condition.Even in the physical realm, cleanliness will conduce to spirituality.
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Aspect Cleanliness Condition Holiness Human Purity Spirituality
Love manifests its reality in deeds, not only in words – these alone are without effect.
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Alone Deed Effect Manifest Reality
In some respects woman is superior to man. She is more tender-hearted, more receptive, her intuition is more intense.
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Intense Intuition Man Men More Respect Tender
The rich must wish to give! Life in man should be like a flame, warming all with whom it comes into contact. The spiritually awakened are like to bright torches in the sight of God, they give light and comfort to their fellows.
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Awakened Contact Flame Give Life Man Rich Spiritual Warning Wish
Be calm, be strong, be grateful, and become a lamp full of light, that the darkness of sorrows be annihilated, and that the sun of everlasting joy arise from the dawning-place of heart and soul, shining brightly.
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Darkness Everlasting Grateful Heart Strong Sun
Observe that the body of man is confined to a small place; it covers only two spans of earth. But the spirit and mind of man travel to all countries and regions
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Body Confined Country Distance Earth Man Mind Observe Small Span Travel
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
The greatest bounty of God. Knowledge is identical with guidance, and ignorance is real error
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Error God Guidance Identical Ignorance Knowledge Real
Be ye a refuge to the fearful; bring ye rest and peace to the disturbed; make ye a provision for the destitute; be a treasury of riches for the poor; be a healing medicine for those who suffer pain
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Fearful Healing Medicine Pain Peace Poor Provision Refuge Treasury
If you desire with all your heart, friendship with every race on earth, your thought, spiritual and positive, will spread; it will become the desire of others, growing stronger and stronger, until it reaches the minds of all men.
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Desire Friendship Heart Inspirational Positive Race Spiritual
By some this state is reached through pills, powders, and physicians. By others through hygiene, fasting, and prayer. By others through direct perception.
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Fasting Hygiene Physician Pill Powder Prayer Reached State
This is destined to come about. In the same way, in the character, the conduct and the manners of men, universal modifications will be made.
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Character Destined Modification Same Universal
These he must attain in this world so that after his ascension from the earthly to the heavenly Kingdom he shall find all that is needful in that eternal life ready for him
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Ascension Attain Earthly Kingdom Needful World
The spirit does not need a body, but the body needs spirit, or it cannot live. The soul can live without a body, but the body without a soul dies
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Body Die Doe Need Soul Spirit
The gift of God to this enlightened age is the knowledge of the oneness of mankind and of the fundamental oneness of religion.
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Brother Fundamental Gift God Oneness Peace Religion War
Fighting, and the employment of force, even for the right cause, will not bring about good results. The oppressed who have right on their side, must not take that right by force; the evil would continue. Hearts must be changed.
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Employment Fighting Force Heart Men Oppressed Right
Man is in reality a spiritual being and only when he lives in the spirit is he truly happy.
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Happy Live Man Reality Spiritual Truly
The human spirit may be likened to the bounty of the sun shining on a mirror. The body of man, … grows and develops through the animal spirit.
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Animal Book Bounty Develop Human LIkened Man Mirror Shining Spirit Sun
War shall cease between nations, and by the will of God the Most Great Peace shall come; the world will be seen as a new world, and all men will live as brothers.
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Cease God Great Men Nation New War World
To speak more exactly, will be an age in which the masculine and feminine elements of civilization will be more evenly balanced.
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Age Balanced Exactly Feminine Masculine More Speak
If, however, we look at people from the standpoint of their faults, then being a friend to them is a formidable task.hus is it incumbent upon us, when we direct our gaze toward other people, to see where they excel, not where they fail.
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Excel Fail Fault Formidable Incumbent Look People Standpoint Task
In the world of existence there is indeed no greater power than the power of love
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Existence Greater Indeed Power World
His Law and render of no account all efforts exerted in the past.
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Account Effort Exerted Law Past Render

Among the greatest of all great services is the education of children, and promotion of the various sciences, crafts and arts. Praised be God, ye are now exerting strenuous efforts toward this end.

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Among the greatest of all great services is the education of children, and promotion of the various sciences, crafts and arts. Praised be God, ye are now exerting strenuous efforts toward this end.

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