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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.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Beseech Bloodshed Cease Friendship Love Mine Peace Prayer Unity War
The intellect is good but until it has become the servant of the heart, it is of little avail.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Avail Good Heart Intellect Little Servant
We should all visit the sick. When they are in sorrow and suffering, it is a real help and benefit to have a friend come.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Friend Happiness Healer Help Real Sick Sorrow
Divine Justice demands that the rights of both sexes should be equally respected since neither is superior to the other in the eyes of Heaven.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Dignity Divine Eye Eyes Heart Heaven Respected Right Sex Superior
If religion becomes a cause of dislike, hatred and division it were better to be without it.
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Baha Become Dislike Division Hatred Religion
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
To oppose knowledge is ignorant, and he who detests knowledge and science is not a man, but rather an animal without intelligence.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Animal Ignorance Intelligence Knowledge Mean Real Science
His Law and render of no account all efforts exerted in the past.
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Account Effort Exerted Law Past Render
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.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Cease God Great Men Nation New War World
Let us join together to hasten forward the Divine Cause of unity, until all humanity knows itself to be one family, joined together in love.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Divine Humanity Love Together
May you become as the waves of one sea, stars of the same heaven, fruits adorning the same tree, roses of one garden in order that through you the oneness of humanity may establish its temple in the world of mankind
ABDU'L-BAHA

Commitment Flower Fruit Garden Order Rose Star Tree Uplifting
Or to a guilty or innocent sufferer! Sacrifice yourself, your talent, your time, your rest to another, to one who has to bear a heavier load than you – and your unhappy mood will dissolve into a blessed, contented submission to God.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Guilty Heavier Innocent Rest Sacrifice Suffer Talent Time
Thus an illness caused by affliction, fear, nervous impressions, will be healed more effectively by spiritual rather than physical treatment. Hence, both kinds of treatment should be followed; they are not.
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Caused Illness Impression Nervous Treatment
He needed ears; he obtained them there in readiness and preparation for his new existence. The powers requisite in this world were conferred upon him in the world of the matrix.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Ears Existence Needed New Obtained Preparation Readiness
For knowledge is light, life, felicity, perfection, beauty and the means of approaching the Threshold of Unity. It is the honor and glory of the world of humanity
ABDU'L-BAHA

Approaching Beauty Felicity Humanity Knowledge Light Perfection Unity
New bounties, bestowals and perfections are awaiting and already descending upon him.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Awaiting Bestowal Bounties Descending New Perfection

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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