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Any young man, who makes dowry a condition to marriage, discredits his education and his country and dishonours womanhood.
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You will eat not to satisfy your palate but your hunger. A self-indulgent man lives to eat; a self-restrained man eats to live.
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A man's true wealth hereafter is the good he has done to his fellowmen.
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We do want to drive out the beast in man, but we do not want on that account to emasculate him.
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I own no property and yet I feel that I am perhaps the richest man in the world.
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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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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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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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Man will ever remain imperfect, and it will always be his part to try to be perfect.
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Often does good come out of evil. But that is God's, not man's plan.
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God in his wisdom circumscribed man's vision, and rightly too, for otherwise man's conceit would know no bounds.
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Woman is more fitted than man to make explorations and take bolder action in ahimsa.
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A man who wants to control his animal passions easily does so if he controls his palate.
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The whole existence of man is a ceaseless duel between the forces of life and death.
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Surely conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows his creatures' hearts. A conversion without a clean heart is, in my opinion, a denial of God and Religion. Conversion without cleanliness of heart can only be a matter of sorrow, not joy, to a godly person.
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Newspapers have become more important to the average man than the scriptures.
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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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Man's upward progress means ever increasing difficulty, which is to be welcomed.
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Spiritual force is like any other force at the service of man.
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A man who would interpret the scriptures must have the spiritual discipline.
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He who runs may see that opium and such other intoxicants and narcotics stupefy a man's soul and reduce him to a level lower than that of beasts.
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Languages proclaim that woman is half of man, and by parity of reasoning, man is half of woman.
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I must refuse to believe that the Germans contemplate with equanimity the evacuation of cities like London for fear of destruction to be wrought by man's inhuman ingenuity.
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Study not man in his animal nature - man following the laws of the jungle - but study man in all his glory.
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But I never again went through this street. There would be other men coming in this man's place and, ignorant of the incident, they would behave likewise. Why should I unnecessarily court another kick? I therefore selected a different walk.
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
Dorothy L. Sayers
Mahatma Gandhi
1942 © Wallace Kirkland
Born:
October 2, 1869
Died:
January 30, 1948
(aged 78)
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