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.
MUNSHI PREMCHANDWealth and compassion are opposites.
More Munshi Premchand Quotes
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Trust is the first step to love.
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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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People are so selfish. Those you help are the ones who turn against you.
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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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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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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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I will not call that person happy who knows no rest because of his enemies, who is the butt of fun by all and for whom no one has any empathy, who is as if held on a leash by others, who has lost himself in hedonistic pursuits, who preys on those weaker to him and wags his tail for his superiors.
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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.
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Beauty doesn’t need ornaments. Softness can’t bear the weight of ornaments.
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Boys are quite often whimsical. Whereas girls are modest by nature and know their responsibilities very well. Their weapons are service, sacrifice, and love, by which they conquer over the males.
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My life is simple and rough.
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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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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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Wealth and compassion are opposites.
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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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