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If others hurl their darts against you, offer them milk and honey in return; if they poison your lives, sweeten their souls.

Abdu'l-Baha

This perfected body can be compared to a mirror, and the human spirit to the sun. Nevertheless, if the mirror breaks, the bounty of the sun continues; and if the mirror is destroyed or ceases to exist
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Book Bounty Break Compared Discovery Mirror
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
But to remain happy and contented in the face of difficulty, hardship and the onslaught of disease and sickness-this is an indication of nobility.
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Contented Difficulty Disease Face Happy Indication Nobility Onslaught Sickness
Prejudices of any kind are the destroyers of human happiness & welfare.
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Destroyer Happiness Human Kind Prejudice Welfare
Hence the new age will be an age less masculine, and more permeated with the feminine ideals
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Age Ageless Civilization Element Feminine Masculine New
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.
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Divine Humanity Love Together
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
Its happiness is the attainment of spiritual perfections.
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Attainment Happiness Perfection Spiritual
Love gives life to the lifeless. Love lights a flame in the heart that is cold. Love brings hope to the hopeless and gladdens the hearts of the sorrowful.
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Cold Flame Heart Hopeless Lifeless Light Sorrowful
A man may be a Bah’ in name only. If he is a Bah’ in reality, his deeds and actions will be decisive proofs of it.
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Decisive Man Men Oneness Proof Reality
The forces and powers necessary for this world were bestowed upon him in that limited condition. In this world he needed eyes; he received them potentially in the other.
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Bestowed Condition Eyes Force Limited Necessary Needed Power World
And it must traverse all conditions, for its passage and movement through the conditions of existence will be the means of its acquiring perfections.
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Condition Greater Grieve Movement Passage Perfection Traverse
Close investigation will show that the primary cause of oppression and injustice, of unrighteousness, irregularity and disorder
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Close Disorder Educational Injustice Investigation Oppression People Primary Religious
Truthfulness is the foundation of all virtues of the world of humanity. Without truthfulness, progress and success in all the worlds of God are impossible for a soul.
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God Humanity Impossible Man Soul Truthfulness World
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
Illnesses which occur because of physical causes should be treated by doctors with medical remedies; those which are due to spiritual causes disappear through spiritual means. contradictory.
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Doctor Illness Mean Medical Remedies Spiritual

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