“Recall the face of the poorest and weakest man you have seen, and ask yourself if this step you contemplate is going to be any use to him.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid knowledge that one that must be loved is not a friend. There is not merit in loving an enemy when you forget him for a friend. ”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“A moral life, without reference to religion, is like a house built upon sand. And religion, divorced from morality, is like “sounding brass, good only for making a noise and breaking heads.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“The devotee of truth is often obliged to grope in the dark.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“If a single man achieves the highest kind of love, it will be sufficient to neutralize the hate of millions.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“no scheme of self-government, however benevolently or generously it may be bestowed upon us, will ever make us a self-governing nation, if we have no respect for the languages our mothers speak.
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Mahatma Gandhi
“For it is an unbroken torture to me that I am still so far from Him, who, as I fully know, governs every breath of my life, and whose offspring I am. I know that it is the evil passions within that keep me so far from Him, and yet I cannot get away from them.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“That the good of the individual is contained in the good of all. (2) That a lawyer’s work has the same value as the barber’s inasmuch as all have the same right of earning their livelihood from their work. (3) That a life of labour, i.e., the life of the tiller of the soil and the handicraftsman is the life worth living.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
