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One good deed is worth a thousand prayers.

Zoroaster

He who sows the ground with care and diligence acquires a greater stock of religious merit than he could gain by the repetition of ten thousand prayers.
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Care Greatness Prayer Religious Repeat
Happiness comes to them who bring happiness to others.
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Generosity Happiness Kindness Spiritual
You shall love peace as a means to new wars – and the short peace more than the long.
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Love Mean Peace War
With an open mind, seek and listen to all the highest ideals. Consider the most enlightened thoughts. Then choose your path, person by person, each for oneself.
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Enlightenment Mind Path
Do not hold grain waiting for higher prices when people are hungry.
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Business Hungry People Price Wait
By my love and my hope I beseech you – do not forsake hero in your soul!
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Diversity Hero Hope Love Soul Yourself
Let us be such as help the life of the future.
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Future Help Kindness Life
If one would have a friend, then must one also be willing to wage war for him: and in order to wage war, one must be capable of being an enemy.
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Enemy Friendship Oneself Order War Willing
Beware of lust; it corrupteth both the body and the mind.
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Body Corruption Lust Mind
When you are in doubt abstain.
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Doubt One Liner Wait Yourself
Do not lose joy in life as you grow old in years. Let not your ‘joie de vivre be crushed under the weight of years.
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Growth Joy Life Lose Old Weight
Devotion, like fire, goeth upward.
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Devotion Fire Inspirational Passionate
Always meet petulance with gentleness and perverseness with kindness. A gentle hand can lead even en elephant by a hair. Reply to thine enemy with gentleness.
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Enemy Gentle Hairs Hands Kindness Perseverance
When we are in doubt whether an action is good or bad, abstain from it.
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Action Avoid Bad Doubt Goodness
Truth is best (of all that is) good. As desired, what is being desired is truth for him who (represents) the best truth. (Gathas 27.14)
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Best Deep Desire Goodness Truth Wisdom
Happiness comes to them who bring happiness to others.
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Generosity Happiness Kindness Spiritual

One good deed is worth a thousand prayers.

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