What people think in their heart gets out, no matter how much they try to hide it.
MUNSHI PREMCHANDParents are one’s companions in life but not partakers of one’s karma.
More Munshi Premchand Quotes
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My life is simple and rough.
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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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Wealth and compassion are opposites.
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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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People are so selfish. Those you help are the ones who turn against you.
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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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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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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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Like timidity, bravery is also contagious.
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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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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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We all have to die some day. Not very many immortals have shown up in this world.
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Beauty doesn’t need ornaments. Softness can’t bear the weight of ornaments.
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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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Parents are one’s companions in life but not partakers of one’s karma.
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