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 PREMCHANDParents are one’s companions in life but not partakers of one’s karma.
More Munshi Premchand Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Parents are one’s companions in life but not partakers of one’s karma.
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Trust is the first step to love.
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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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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 brothers don’t help each other in times of need, how do you think life will ever go on?
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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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People are so selfish. Those you help are the ones who turn against you.
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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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Beauty doesn’t need ornaments. Softness can’t bear the weight of ornaments.
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My life is simple and rough.
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Wealth and compassion are opposites.
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