Secrets of the past! Who does not wish to keep the past locked in a cage like a ferocious beast? The rich are sleepless for fear of thieves. The respectable have to guard their reputations in the same way.
MUNSHI PREMCHANDWe all have to die some day. Not very many immortals have shown up in this world.
More Munshi Premchand Quotes
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Like timidity, bravery is also contagious.
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Since the day Brahma created the world to this day, no one’s ever been able to satisfy a wedding guest. They always find some opportunity or other to find fault and criticise. One who can’t even afford a dry piece of bread at home becomes a lord at the wedding party.
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Parents are one’s companions in life but not partakers of one’s karma.
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What people think in their heart gets out, no matter how much they try to hide it.
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Trees bear fruits only to be eaten by others; the fields grown grains, but they are consumed by the world. Cows give milk, but she doesn’t drink it herself – that is left to others. Clouds send rain only to quench the parched earth. In such giving, there is little space for selfishness.
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As long as the shackles of wealth and property bind us, we will remain accursed forever and never attain the altar of humanity, which is life’s ultimate goal.
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A household can never appear prosperous without a cow. How auspicious it is to wake up in the morning to the mooing of your own cow!
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If there were a being in the world whose eyes could look into other people’s hearts, very few men or women would be able to face up to it.
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If someone ensures us two square meals a day, we will sing and pray all our waking hours. If one has to hoe sugarcane all day, devotion to God vanishes like smoke.
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If brothers don’t help each other in times of need, how do you think life will ever go on?
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Beauty doesn’t need ornaments. Softness can’t bear the weight of ornaments.
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The world assumes that we are very happy with high mansions, fine carriages, servants and attendants, huge investments, and concubines. But he who is without the honor and strength of the soul can be anything but happy.
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My life is simple and rough.
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We all have to die some day. Not very many immortals have shown up in this world.
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The first condition of marriage between a man and a woman is that both must belong to each other totally.
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