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.
MUNSHI PREMCHANDIf 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.
More Munshi Premchand Quotes
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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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Wealth and compassion are opposites.
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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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Beauty doesn’t need ornaments. Softness can’t bear the weight of ornaments.
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Trust is the first step to love.
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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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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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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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Parents are one’s companions in life but not partakers of one’s karma.
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My life is simple and rough.
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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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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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The first condition of marriage between a man and a woman is that both must belong to each other totally.
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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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