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The principal reason for the decline and fall of peoples is ignorance.

Abdu'l-Baha

Anyone can live contentedly in circumstances of ease and comfort, health and well-being gratification and felicit
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Baha Circumstance Comfort Contentedly Felicit Gratification Hardship Heath
The mind and spirit of man advance when he is tried by suffering. … so suffering and tribulation free man from the petty affairs of this worldly life until he arrives at a state of complete detachment.
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Advance Affair Book Life Man Mind Suffering Tribulation Wordly
The confirmations of the Spirit are all those powers and gifts which some are born with (and which men sometimes call genius), but for which others have to strive with infinite pains.
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Born Confirmation Genius Gift Men Pain Power Spirit
Love ye all religions and all races with a love that is true and sincere and show that love through deeds.
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Deeds Baha Race Religion Sincere True
Bahá’í marriage is union and cordial affection between the two parties. They must, however, exercise the utmost care and become acquainted with each other’s character.
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Affection Character Cordial Excercise Exercise Marriage Party Union
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
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
If love and agreement are manifest in a single family, that family will advance, become illumined and spiritual.
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Advanced Agreement Family Illumined Manifest Spiritual
The intellect is good but until it has become the servant of the heart, it is of little avail.
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Avail Good Heart Intellect Little Servant
In the world of existence there is no more powerful magnet than the magnet of love.
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Existence Magnet More Powerful World
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
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
When this holy attribute is established in man, all the divine qualities will also become realized.
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Attribute Established Holy Qualities Realized
So will success crown your efforts, and with the universal brotherhood will come the Kingdom of God in peace and goodwill.
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Brotherhood Crown Effort God Goodwill Peace Success Universal
If one of these two become the cause of divorce, that one will 392 unquestionably fall into great difficulties, will become the victim of formidable calamities and experience deep remorse.
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Difficulty Divorce Fall Formidable Great Victim
An humble man without learning, but filled with the Holy Spirit, is more powerful than the most nobly-born profound scholar without that inspiration.
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Humble Inspiration Learning Man Powerful Profound Scholar Spirit
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
Love is the spirit of life unto the adorned body of mankind, the establisher of true civilization in this mortal world, and the shedder of imperishable glory upon every high-aiming race and nation.
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Adorned Civilization Establisher Imperishable Love Mankind Peace Race Spirit
The primary, the most urgent requirement is the promotion of education. It is inconceivable that any nation should achieve prosperity and success unless this paramount, this fundamental concern is carried forward.
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Educational Fall Ignorance Promotion Prosperity Success Urgent
Its happiness is the attainment of spiritual perfections.
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Attainment Happiness Perfection Spiritual
Love manifests its reality in deeds, not only in words – these alone are without effect.
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Alone Deed Effect Manifest Reality
Man is under all conditons immersed in a sea of God’s blessings. Therefore, be thou not hopeless under any circumstances, but rather be firm in thy hope
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Blessing Circumstance Condition Firm God Hopeless Immersed Man Men Sea
Strive with all your hearts, raise up your voices and shout, until this dark world be filled with light.
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Dark Filled Heart Light Shout Strive Voice
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
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
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
The body of the human world is sick. Its remedy and healing will be the oneness of the kingdom of humanity. Its life is the Most Great Peace. Its illumination and quickening is love.
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Body Healing Human Oneness Remedy Sick Spiritual World

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