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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.

Munshi Premchand

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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Devotion God Prayer Smoke Wake Up
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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Forever Goal Humanity Life Property Wealth
Trust is the first step to love.
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Love One Liner Trust
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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Eyes Face Heart Man People Woman World
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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Devil Fear Guard Past Prison Reputation Rich Secret Way
Wealth and compassion are opposites.
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Compassionate Wealth
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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Believe Ideal Man Marriage Thinking Togetherness Woman Work
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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Empathy Enemy Happiness Himself Person Pursuit Weakness
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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Big Food People Thinking Truth Worry Worst
Parents are one’s companions in life but not partakers of one’s karma.
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Friendship Karma Life Oneself Parents
The first condition of marriage between a man and a woman is that both must belong to each other totally.
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Each Other Man Marriage Relationship Woman
Like timidity, bravery is also contagious.
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Brave Inspirational Timid
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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Creation Home Mistake Opportunity Party Pieces Satisfaction World
Illness and problems are the specialties of life. But the death of a child is a cause of mental agony which can be overcome if one concedes this world to be a stage or stadium wherein praiseworthy are those who are not proud of their achievement and those who do not cry at their defeat.
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Achievement Cry Death Defeat Life Mental Praise Problem Proud Sick
My life is simple and rough.
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Life Rough Simplicity
We all have to die some day. Not very many immortals have shown up in this world.
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Death Immortal World

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