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.
MUNSHI PREMCHANDIf 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.
More Munshi Premchand Quotes
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I believe that if man and woman cherish the same ideals and think alike, then the marriage can be complementary to each other’s work instead of being a hindrance.
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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 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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The first condition of marriage between a man and a woman is that both must belong to each other totally.
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My life is simple and rough.
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People are so selfish. Those you help are the ones who turn against you.
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Beauty doesn’t need ornaments. Softness can’t bear the weight of ornaments.
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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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What people think in their heart gets out, no matter how much they try to hide it.
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Like timidity, bravery is also contagious.
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Wealth and compassion are opposites.
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We think these big people are very happy, but the truth is they are worse than us. We are just worried about one thing – hunger; they have a thousand worries.
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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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We all have to die some day. Not very many immortals have shown up in this world.
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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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