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Do thou win here, do thou conquer here, overcome, win, hail. These here shall conquer, those yonder be conquered. Hail to these here, perdition to those yonder.
Everybody should try to free himself from the negative qualities like hatred, jealousy and wickedness.
They remain absorbed in the fear of God; they never leave it. Who can estimate their value? They remain lovingly absorbed in the Lord.
Evil |
Those who are greedy and 'devoid of devotion' sit together and devour flesh, they definitely have an eye on other's wealth.
To live for hundred years it is important that the body is healthy, devoid of weakness and ailments.
We should acquire power and strength so that we could vanquish our enemies and enjoy a long life full of happiness and prosperity and face death without fear.
Hatred and anger leads to unhappiness, pain and misery. So, one should always be soft-spoken and all 'karma-yogis' should tread on the path of righteousness.
We have all around us, in the atmosphere, the music emanating from all the Broadcasting Stations of the World, but they do not assail your ear at any time. You are not aware of any Station; but, if you have a receiver and if you tune it to the correct wavelength, you can hear the matter broadcast from any Station; if you fail to tune it correctly, you will get instead of news only nuisance.
Do not tremble in fear but become strong and courageous instead.
Contemplation | Evil | Knowledge | Wisdom | Contemplation |
Ursula Le Guin, fully Ursula Kroeber Le Guin
It might seem strange that on an island fifty miles wide, in a village under cliffs that stare out forever on the sea, a child may grow to manhood never having stepped in a boat or dipped his finger in salt water, but so it is.
Evil |
Ursula Le Guin, fully Ursula Kroeber Le Guin
The unknown, said Faxe's soft voice in the forest, the unforetold, the unproven, that is what life is based on. Ignorance is the ground of thought. Unproof is the ground of action. If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion. No Handdara, no Yomesh, no hearthgods, nothing. But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion. ... Tell me, Genry, what is known? What is sure, unpredictable, inevitable -- the one certain thing you know concerning your future, and mine?
Ursula Le Guin, fully Ursula Kroeber Le Guin
They knew that their anarchism was the product of a very high civilization, of a complex diversified culture, of a stable economy and a highly industrialized technology that could maintain high production and rapid transportation of goods. However vast the distances separating settlements, they held to the ideal of complex organicism.
Children | Despair | Evil | Happy | Pain | People | Praise | Treason | Trouble | Happiness |
Ursula Le Guin, fully Ursula Kroeber Le Guin
You thought, as a boy, that a mage is one who can do anything. So I thought, once. So did we all. And the truth is that as a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at least he chooses nothing, but does only and wholly what he must do.
V. S. Pritchett, fully Sir Victor Sawdon Pritchett
All writers - all people - have their stores of private and family legends which lie like a collection of half-forgotten, often violent toys on the floor of memory.
Commitment | Evil | Hell | Society | Society |
Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues NULL
The excuse usually those who are the misfortune of others is that they want their property.