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We notice that the mind is a restless bird; the more it gets the more it wants, and still remains unsatisfied. The more we indulge our passions the more unbridled they become. Our ancestors, therefore, set a limit to our indulgences. They saw that happiness was largely a mental condition. A man is not necessarily happy because he is rich, or unhappy because he is poor.... Millions will always remain poor.
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Religion is no test of nationality, but a personal matter between man and his God.
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A selfish basis would not serve the purpose of taking a man higher and higher along the paths of evolution.
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He who runs to the doctor, vaidya, or hakim for every little ailment, and swallows all kinds of vegetable and mineral drugs, not only curtails his life, but by becoming the slave of his body instead of remaining its master, loses self-control, and ceases to be a man.
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When we fear God, then we shall fear no man, however high-placed he may be.
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Through realization of freedom of India, I hope to realize and carry on the mission of brotherhood of man.
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I claim to be no more than an average man with below average capabilities.
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If treachery is the reward of trust, will the man who trusts come to harm?
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Ahimsa was preached to man when he was in full vigor of life and able to look his adversaries straight in the face.
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The man who eats to live, who is friends with the five powers - earth, water, ether, sun and air - who is a servant of God, the Creator of all these, ought not to fall ill.
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No man could be actively nonviolent and not rise against social injustice, no matter where it occurred.
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Man is sent into the world to perform his duty even at the cost of his life.
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When a man wants to make up with his Maker, he does not consult a third party.
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Repression does for a true man or a nation what fire does for gold.
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Man is not at peace with himself till he has become like unto God.
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Man is not to drown himself in the well of the Shastras, but he is to dive in their broad ocean and bring out pearls.
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Do not flatter yourselves with the belief that a mere recital of that celebrated verse in St. John makes a man a Christian.
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I know that I have still before me a difficult path to traverse. I must reduce myself to zero. So long as a man does not of his own free will put himself last among his fellow creatures, there is no salvation for him. Ahimsa is the farthest limit of humility.
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Though violence is not lawful, when it is offered in self-defense or for the defense of the defenseless, it is an act of bravery far better than cowardly submission. The latter befits neither man nor woman. Under violence, there are many stages and varieties of bravery. Every man must judge this for himself. No other person can or has the right.
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Woman is more fitted than man to make explorations and take bolder action in ahimsa.
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My own opinion is that just as fundamentally man and woman are one, their problems must be one in essence.
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God created man to work for his food and said that those who ate without work were thieves.
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A true man of piety will consider himself a sinner and, therefore, untouchable.
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If you want to play your part in the world's affairs, you must refuse to deck yourselves for pleasing man.
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Man's triumph will consist in substituting the struggle for existence by a struggle for mutual service.
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At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language.
Lafcadio Hearn
Mahatma Gandhi
1942 © Wallace Kirkland
Born:
October 2, 1869
Died:
January 30, 1948
(aged 78)
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