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All Quotes Collection
"Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also."
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"And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last."
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"A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires."
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"He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe."
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"Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last."
224
"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."
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"Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so."
Will,
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"Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished."
Work,
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"Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else."
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"Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig."
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"Metaphysical thinking will always no doubt be a strong element in her mentality, and it is to be hoped that she will never lose her great, her sovereign powers in that direction."
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"The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race."
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"Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage."
54
"Spirituality is indeed the master key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it."
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"To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs."
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"She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence."
50
"India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities."
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"India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples."
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"That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others."
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"India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration."
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"Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite."
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"She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw the splendors of the spirit."
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"Dear Lord; we beg but one boon more: Peace in the hearts of all men living, peace in the whole world this Thanksgiving."
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"A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can."
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"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love."
18
"Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody."
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"General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be."
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"For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?"
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"Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim."
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"Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does."
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