💬 Quotes

"Whereoever you are, you can whisper secret, sweet prayers to God, and He will answer."

"Plain living is easily achievable, but high thinking is hard in this age. Yet, the ideal must be kept before us if we would conquer our lower nature."

"Attachment is the great snare of maya. Give up desire and you will be free."

"The apparent brevity of life should chasten us; it is a constant reminder that we are only temporary actors on the stage of time."

"Wisdom without equity is to be called cunning rather than wisdom."

"Not for ourselves alone are we born, but our country claims for itself one part of our birth, and our friends another."

"There is no such thing as a mean advantage; deceit may give a temporary triumph, but it can never be for one's permanent interest."

"To err is human, to persevere in error is diabolical (or rather, characteristic of a stubborn mind). He who is noble and brave is ever the most unconcerned with danger and the least subject to panic."

"No man can live happily who regards only himself, who turns everything to his own advantage. You must live for others if you wish to live for yourself."

"Justice is the queen of all the virtues."

"The great trial is being left alone, – left in the dreary house, and I cannot tell you how sad and lonely it feels."

"Biography is a difficult art; and those who undertake it are too often biassed by prejudice, or warped by affection."

"We must be our own grand-parents, and write our own genealogies."

"She was then a little, quiet, solitary thing, – so small in person that she might have been taken for a child, yet with a strength of will that sustained her through all."

"Fame can do little for those who have lost their dearest; and the 'fame' of Currer Bell was powerless to heal a broken heart."

"The remarkable thing was, that while her book caused such a sensation in the world, no one in the village suspected her of authorship."

"Before beginning, let us understand what is meant by Edwin Arnold's 'Light of Asia', though your prompt mentions Edwin Lester Linden Arnold, the author is actually Sir Edwin Arnold. Wait, here are authentic quotes from Edwin Arnold's epic poem:"

"The Dawns which fade upon the holy earth, / Before the Dawn shall come, shall vanish oft."

"Kill not—for pity's sake—lest ye slay / The meanest thing which liveth, since all life / Is precious, and the breath of God is one."

"Measure not with words / Th' immeasurable; nor sink the string / Of common thought into the ocean deep / Of holiness."