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Says Nanak, the Truth has been revealed to me. The Guru has given me the treasure; I have taken it and enshrined it within my heart.
Hardly anyone loves the Lord's Name; how rare is that place which is in bloom.
Now and then it occurs to one to reflect upon what slender threads of accident depend the most important circumstances of his life; to look back and shudder, realizing how close to the edge of nothingness his being has come.
Asceticism | Idealism | Impulse | Mankind | Self-deception | Asceticism |
This race of men came there from India, flying from the sword of the Magi, a race of plunderers and tyrants who laid waste their country, and they determined to lead a philosophic life in fellowship with one another.
Cleanliness | Labor |
You can purchase the mind of Pascal for a crown. Pleasures even cheaper are sold to those who give themselves up to them. It is only luxuries and objects of caprice that are rare and difficult to obtain; unfortunately they are the only things that touch the curiosity and taste of ordinary men.
The generality of men are so bound within the sphere of their circumstances that they have not even the courage to get out of them through their ideas, and if we see a few whom, in a way, speculation over great things makes incapable of mean ones, we find still more with whom the practice of small things takes away the feeling for great ones.
Labor |
We are not greatly pleased that our friends should respect our good qualities if they venture to perceive our faults.
The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.
We cannot meet it the threat of dictatorship if we turn this country into a wishy-washy imitation of totalitarianism, where every man’s hand is out for pabulum and virile creativeness has given place to the patronizing favor of swollen bureaucracy.
One cannot be just if one is not humane.
Labor |
The most we can get out of life is its discipline for ourselves, and its usefulness for others.
Good | Life | Life | Mankind | Perfection |
The best rules of rhetoric are, to speak intelligently; speak from the heart; have something to say; say it; and stop when you've done.
Decision | Important | Promptness | Value |
Who has no intention to pray has no ears for the call to prayer.
The immediate cause of the increase of population is the excess of the births above deaths; and the rate of increase, or the period of doubling, depends upon the proportion which the excess of the births above the deaths bears to the population.
Mankind |