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Those who boast are seldom the great.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Unity must be of the mind and heart, a sense of belonging together and of facing together those who attack it.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Face Heart Mindset Togetherness Unity
Blood and tears are going to be our lot, whether we like them or not. Our blood and tears will flow; maybe the parched soil of India needs them so that the fine flower of freedom may grow again.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Flower Freedom Growth Need Ourselves Tears
Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.
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Absence Mindset Peace War
A tyrst with destiny – A the stroke of midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awaken to life and Freedom.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Change Destiny Freedom Life World
Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Absence Mindset Nation Peace Relationship Soul War
People avoid action. Often because they are afraid of the consequences, for action means risk and danger. Danger seems terrible from a distance; it is not so bad if you have a close look at it
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Action Avoid Danger Distance People
Do not advise too much: do the job yourself. This is the only advice you can give to others. Do it and others will follow.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Advice Generosity Job Yourself
Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Opinion Truth
Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Action Myself Right Satisfaction
The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Friendship Future Science
What we need is a generation of peace.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Need Peace
I am the last Englishman to rule in India.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Myself Rule
The light has gone out of our lives.Yet I am wrong, for the light that shone in this country was no ordinary light. and a thousand years later that light will still be seen in this country and the world will see it. For that light represented the living truth.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Life Light Live Ourselves See Truth World Wrong
Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Democracy Freedom Understand Worst
A great disaster is a symbol to us to remember all the big things of life and forget the small things, of which we have thought too much.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Forget Greatness Life Remember Thinking
A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology. It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and a culture, and the living embodiment of the thoughts and fancies that have moulded them.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Genius Greatness Language Live Poetry

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