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Condemn none; if you can stretch out a helping

hand, do so.

No man should be judged by his defects.

Do not be jealous of anyone. Look not to thefaults of others.

This is the first lesson to learn: be determined

not to curse anything outside, not to lay blame

upon anyone outside, but be a man, stand up, lay

the blame on yourself. You will find that is

always true.Get hold of yourself. Do not go against anything-----------ours is to

put the chemicals together, the Lord knows how

and when the crystal will form.

Do not disturb, but help everyone to get higher

and higher; include all humanity.

Do not recognize wickedness in others.

Wickedness is ignorance, weakness. What is thegood of telling people they are weak? Criticism

and destruction are of no avail. We must give

them something higher; tell them of their own

glorious nature, their birthright.

Never talk about the faults of others, no matter

how bad they may be. Nothing is ever gained by

that. You never help anyone by telling about his

faults, but you do him an injury, and injure

yourself as well.


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No one is to blame for our miseries but

ourselves.

Every man must begin where he stands, must

learn how to control the things that are nearest tohim.

Do not try to disturb the faith of any man. If you

can, give him something better; if you can, get

hold of a man where he stands and give him a

push upwards.

Blame neither man, nor God, nor anyone in theworld. When you find yourselves suffering,

blame yourselves, and try to do better.

Man never progresses from error to truth, but

from truth to truth, from lesser truth to higher

truth------------ but it is never from error to truth.

Therefore, if you have knowledge and see a man

weak, do not condemn him. Go to his level and

help him if you can. He must grow.

Bring in the light and the evil goes in a moment.

It is gentleness that has the strength to live on

and to fructify and not mere brutality and

physical force.

The evils that are in the world are caused bynone else but ourselves.

Each is responsible for the evil anywhere in the

world.


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Evil exists, and there is no shirking the fact.

In doing evil we injure ourselves and others also.

He alone is a sinner who sees a sinner in

another man.

How can we see evil unless it is in us?

The Vedanta recognises no sin, it only recognises

error.

This me and mine is the very root of all the

evil in the world.

We ought not to hate anyone. This world willalways continue to be a mixture of good and evil.

Our duty is to sympathies with the weak and to

love even the wrongdoer. The world is a grand

moral gymnasium wherein we have all to take

exercise so as to become stronger and stronger

spiritually.

Nature wants us to react, to return blow for blow,

cheating for cheating, lie for lie, to hit back with

all our might. Then it requires a super divine

power not to hit back, to keep control, to be

unattached.

Say, This misery that I am suffering is of my

own doing, and that very thing, proves that itwill have to be undone by me alone. That which

I created, I can demolish; that which is created

by someone else, I shall never be able to

destroy.Therefore, stand up, be bold, be strong.


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Take the whole responsibility on your own

shoulders, and know that you are the creator of

your own destiny. All the strength and succor

you want is within yourselves. You must be perfectly pure.Do not think of

evil things, such thoughts will surely drag you

down.

Bear all evil and misery without one murmur

of hurt, without one thought ofunhappiness,

resistance, remedy, or retaliation.

Give up all self, as egotism; get out of anger,

lust, give all to God. Blame none if evil comes.

Bear with everyones shortcomings. Forgive

offences by the millions.

The more opposition there is, the better. Does a

river acquire velocity unless there is resistance?

The newer and better a thing is the moreopposition it will meet with the onset.It is

opposition which foretells success.

Good and evil are our slaves, not we theirs.

Children finding glass beads in a mud puddle,

that is the good of the world.Look at it with

calm complacency;see good and evil as the

same,both are merely Gods play; enjoy all. We must not look down with contempt on

others.All of us are going towards the same

goal.The difference between the weakness

and strength is one of degree; the difference


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between virtue and vice is one of degree; the

difference between heaven and hell is one of

degree; the difference between life and death

is one of degree; alldifference in this worldare of degree, and not of kind,because

oneness is the secret of everything.

Go on! Do not look back if you think you have

done something that is not right. Now, do you

believe you could be what you are today if you

had not made those mistakes before?.............

Bless men, when they revile you. Think how

much good they are doing you;they can only

hurt themselves. Go where people hate you, let

them thrash the ego out of you and you will get

nearer to the Lord. Like the mother-monkey, we

hug our baby, the world, as long as we can, but

at last when we are driven to put it under our feetand step on it then we are ready to come to God.

Blessed it is to be persecuted for the sake of

righteousness.

The perfect life would be a wonderful harmony

between doing and suffering.

Do not fight with people; do not antagonize

anyone.

Let people praise you or blame you, let fortune

smile or frown upon you, let your body fall today

or after a yuga, see that you do not deviate


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from the path of truth. How much of tempests

and waves one had to weather, before one

reaches the heaven of peace. The greater a man

has become, the firer ordeal he has had to passthrough.

Live in harmony with all. Give up all idea of

egoism, and entertain no sectarian views.

Useless wrangling is a great sin.

Let there be action without reaction.

There is neither sin nor virtue; there is onlyignorance.

The power of suffering is infinitely

greater than the power of doing; the

power of love is infinitely of greater

potency than the power of hatred.

Each work has to pass through thesestages---------------ridicule, opposition, and then

acceptance. Each man who thinks ahead of his

time is sure to be misunderstood.

Man never progresses from error to truth, but

from truth to truth, from lesser truth to higher

truth---------------but it is never from error to

truth.

Resist not evil. Face it! You are higher than

evil.


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There is no happiness higher than what a man

obtains by this attitude of non-offensiveness, to

all creation.

Hate not the most abject sinner, look not to hisexterior.

Go on loving. If a man is angry, there is no

reason why you should be angry; if he degrades

himself, that is no reason why you should

degrade yourself.

Analyse yourselves and you will find that everyblow you have received, came to you because

you prepared yourselves for it.

Bear with the various opinions of everybody.

Patience, purity, and perseverance will

prevail.

Man is not traveling from error to truth, but from

truth to truth, from lower to higher truth.

Will sin cure sin, weakness cure weakness?

Darkness is less light; evil is less good; impurity

is less purity.

When God and good and everything else is

in us, there is no evil.

The cause of evil is our desire to be superiorto others and our selfishness. The moment

that the world becomes unselfish all evil

will vanish. So long as society tries to cure

evil by laws and institutions, evil will not


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be cured. The world has tried this method

ineffectually for thousands of years.

The Only Cure for EvilForce against force never cures, and the only cure for evil is

unselfishness.

It is easy to strike a blow, but tremendously

hard to stay the hand.

I can not see evil unless I be evil.

Force against force never cures, and the only

cure of evil is unselfishness. The chief cause of all evil

Know partiality to be the chief cause of all

evil.

Jealousy is the root of all evil, and a most

difficult thing to conquer.

How Evil is destroyed.We must try our best to destroy ignorance and evil; only

we have to learn that evil is destroyed by the growth of

good.

Life is full of ills, the world is full of evils.

Be bold, face facts as facts. Do not be

chased about the universe by evil. Evils are

evils. What of that? The real evil is idleness, which is the

principal cause of our poverty.

A person living in society, specially as a

house holder, should make a show of the


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spirit of resisting evil for purpose of self-

defence, but at the same time trying to avoid

paying back evil for evil.

It is a change of the soul itself for the betterthat alone will cure the evils of life.

All evil comes, as our scriptures say, relying

upon differences.

It is only selfishness that causes the difference

between good and evil.

Beget no evil. Deny evil, create none.

All the evil acts must produce their results

also.

Therefore, the only thing we can do is to

understand that all this work against evil is

more subjective than objective. The work

against evil is more educational than actual,

however big we may talk. This, first of all, is

the idea of work against evil; and it ought to

make us calmer; it ought to take fanaticism

out of our blood.

Resist not evil. Face it! You are higher than

evil. Blows are what awaken us and help to break

the dream. They show us the insufficiency

of this world and make us long to escape, to

have freedom.


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Dont be ruffled if now and then you get a

brush from the world; it will be over in no

time, and everything will be all right.

Dont enter into wrangles withanybody---------------always maintain a calm

attitude.

Useless wrangling is a great sin.

Use agreeable and wholesome language

towards even the greatest enemy.

Go on doing good, thinking holy thoughtscontinuously, that is the only way to suppress

base impressions. Never say any man is

hopeless,because he only represents a character,

a bundle of habits, which can be checked by new

and better ones. Character is repeated habits, and

repeated habits alone can reform character

.The chaste brain has tremendous energyand gigantic will power.

Each human being stands for the divine.

Goodness is our nature, perfection is our nature,

not imperfection, not impurity.

Only cowards sin, brave men never; no, not

even in mind. If your freedom hurts others, you are not

free there; you must not hurt others.

What you have inside you is that you see in

others.


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ReferUNSELFISHNESS; LOVE LOVE

LOVE; THINKING; LOVE;

Within every man, there is an idea; the external

man, is only the outward manifestation, the merelanguage of this idea within.

The ideal of faith in ourselves is of the

greatest help to us. If faith in ourselves had

been more extensively taught and practiced,

I am sure a very large portion of the evils

and miseries that we have would have

vanished. The miseries of the world cannot be cured by

physical help only. Until mans nature changes,

these physical needs will always arise, and

miseries will always be felt, and no amount of

physical help will cure them completely. The

only solutionof this problem is to make

mankind pure.Ignorance is the mother of allthe evil and all the misery we see.Let men

have light, let them be pure and spiritually

strong and educated, then alone will misery

cease in the world, not before.

Misery is caused by sin, and by no other

cause.

Inactivity should be avoided by all means.Activity always means resistance. Resist all

evils, mental and physical; and when you have

succeeded in resisting, then will calmness come.
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If you know that you are positively other than

your body, you have then none to fight with or

struggle against; you are dead to all ideas of

selfishness. We get only what we deserve.

Know that talking ill of others in private is a sin.

You must wholly avoid it. Many things may

occur to the mind, but it gradually makes a

mountain of a mole-hill, if you try to express

them.Everything ends, if you forgive and

forget.

Never think there is anything impossible for

the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so.

If there is any sin, this is the only

sin----------------------to say that you are

weak, or others are weak. From all of you I want this that you must discard

for ever self-aggrandisement, faction-mongering,

and jealousy. You must be all-forbearing like

Mother Earth. If you can achieve this, the

world will be at your feet.

You gain nothing by becoming cowards.

Become a True OptimistControl Everything

Vedanta philosophytakes things as

they are. It admits that this world is a mixture of

good and evil, happiness and misery, and that to


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increase the one, must necessity increase the

other. There will never be a perfectly good or bad

world, because the very idea is a contradiction in

terms.It does not say that this world is allevil or all good. It says that our evil is of no less

value than our good, and our good of no more

value than our evil. They are bound together

but beyond and behind all these

manifestations, the Vedanta finds out that Unity. It

says, Give up what is evil and give up what is

good. What remains then? Behind good and evil

stands something which is yours, the real you

and it is that which is manifesting itself

as good and bad. Know that first, and then and

then alone you will be true optimist, and not

before; for then you will be able to control

everything.Control these manifestations and youwill be at liberty to manifest the real you. First be

master of yourself.

Stand upon the Self, then only can we truly love

the world. Take a very, very high stand; knowing

our universal nature, we must look with perfect

calmness upon all the panorama of the world. It

is but babys play, and we know that, so cannotbe disturbed by it. If the mind is pleased with

praise, it will be displeased with blame. All

pleasures of the senses or even of the mind are

evanescent, but within ourselves is the one true


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unrelated pleasure, dependent upon nothing. It

is perfectly free, it is bliss. The more our bliss is

within, the more spiritual we are. The pleasure

of the Self is what the world calls religion. Hold yourself as a witness and go on working.

Never tell yourselves or others that you are

weak.

We are bound by the senses; they play upon us,

make fools of us all the time.

Control your senses.

Know that all sins and all evils can be

summed up in that one word----------

weakness.It is weakness that is the motive

power in all evil-doing.It is weakness that

is the source of all selfishness.It is

weakness that makes men injure others.

It is weakness that makes them manifestwhat they are not in reality.

Ignorance is the cause of which sin is the

result.

We are to be saved from sin by being saved

from ignorance.

This world is neither good nor evil; each manmanufactures a world for himself.

Guess against guess makes fight.

The body is our enemy, and yet is our friend.

Serve diabolical.


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The great error in all ethical systems,

without exception, has been the failure of

teaching the means by which man could

refrain from doing evil. All the systems ofethics teach, "Do not steal!" Very good; but

why does a man steal? Because all stealing,

robbing, and other evil actions, as a rule,

have become automatic. The systematic

robber, thief, liar, unjust man and woman,

are all these in spite of themselves! It is

really a tremendous psychological problem.

We should look upon man in the most

charitable light. It is not so easy to be good.

What are you but mere machines until you

are free? Should you be proud because you

are good? Certainly not. You are good

because you cannot help it. Another is badbecause he cannot help it. If you were in his

position, who knows what you would have

been? The woman in the street, or the thief

in the jail, is the Christ that is being

sacrificed that you may be a good man. Such

is the law of balance. All the thieves and the

murderers, all the unjust, the weakest, thewickedest, the devils, they all are my Christ!

I owe a worship to the God Christ and to the

demon Christ! That is my doctrine, I cannot

help it. My salutation goes to the feet of the


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good, the saintly, and to the feet of the

wicked and the devilish! They are all my

teachers, all are my spiritual fathers, all are

my Saviours. I may curse one and yetbenefit by his failings; I may bless another

and benefit by his good deeds. This is as true

as that I stand here. I have to sneer at the

woman walking in the street, because

society wants it! She, my Saviour, she,

whose street-walking is the cause of the

chastity of other women! Think of that.

Think, men and women, of this question in

your mind. It is a truth a bare, bold truth!

As I see more of the world, see more of men

and women, this conviction grows stronger.

Whom shall I blame? Whom shall I praise?

Both sides of the shield must be seen.

The task before us is vast; and first and

foremost, we must seek to control the vast

mass of sunken thoughts which have become

automatic with us. The evil deed is, no doubt,

on the conscious plane; but the cause which

produced the evil deed was far beyond in therealms of the unconscious, unseen, and

therefore more potent.


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Practical psychology directs first of all its

energies in controlling the unconscious, and

we know that we can do it. Why? Because we

know the cause of the unconscious is theconscious; the unconscious thoughts are the

submerged millions of our old conscious

thoughts, old conscious actions become

petrified we do not look at them, do not

know them, have forgotten them. But mind

you, if the power of evil is in the unconscious,

so also is the power of good. We have many

things stored in us as in a pocket. We have

forgotten them, do not even think of them, and

there are many of them, rotting, becoming

positively dangerous; they come forth, the

unconscious causes which kill humanity. True

psychology would, therefore, try to bring themunder the control of the conscious. The great

task is to revive the whole man, as it were, in

order to make him the complete master of

himself. Even what we call the automatic

action of the organs within our bodies, such as

the liver etc., can be made to obey our

commands. Love alone is the fittest thing to survive

and not hatred. Everything works for the best.


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If there is any sin in the world, it is

weakness.

The god in you is the god in all. If you have

not known this, you have known nothing. Howcan there be difference? It is all one. Every

being is the temple of the most high; if you can

see that, good, if not, spirituality has yet to

come to you.

TALK NOT ABOUT IMPURITY, BUT SAY

THAT WE ARE PURE. We must go out, we must conquer the world

through our spirituality and philosophy. There

is no other alternative, we must do it or die.

The seeing of many is the greatest sin of all

the world. See all as self and love all; let all

idea of separateness go.

If your ideal is matter, matter shalt thou be.Behold! Our ideal is the spirit.That alone

exists.Nothing else exists,and like Him we

live for ever.

If you project hatred and jealousy they

will rebound on you with compound

interest. No power can avert them;when once you have put them in

motion, you will have to bear them.

Remembering this will prevent you

from doing wicked things.


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If anybody comes to you for vain

dispute, politely withdraw yourself. You

must express your sympathy with people

of all sects. When these cardinal virtueswill be manifested in you, then only you

will be able to work with great energy.

If we are pure, we cannot see impurity.

Say, I am the Spirit! Nothing external can

touch me. When evil thoughts arise, repeat

that, give that sledge-hammer blow on their

heads, I am the Spirit! I am the Witness, the

Ever-Blessed! I have no reason to do, no

reason to suffer, I have finished with

everything, I am the witness. I am in my

picture gallery---------this universe is my

museum, I am looking at these successive

paintings. They are all beautiful. Whethergood or evil. I see the marvelous skill, but it is

all one. Infinite flames of the great Painter!

BEAR ALL EVIL AND MISERY WITHOUT ONE

MURMUR OF HURT, WITHOUT ONE THOUGHT OF

UNHAPPINESS, RESISTANCE, REMEDY, OR

RETALIATION.

MEN ARE MORE VALUABLE THAN ALL

THE WEALTH OF THE WORLD.

There is no difference between the secular and

the spiritual. EACH ONE IS MOVING


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TOWARDS FREEDOM.Each action is a

step towards the absolute.

Spirit alone exists. Nothing else exists.

.for weakness is sin.

We must have friendship for all; we must

be merciful toward those that are in

misery; when people are happy, we ought

to be happy; and to the wicked we must be

indifferent. These attitudes will make the

mind peaceful. Face the brutes. That is a lesson for all

lifeface the terrible, face it boldly. Like

the monkeys, the hardships of life fall

back when we cease to flee before them.

Let us make our hearts as big as an ocean,

to go beyond all the trifles of the world

and see it only as a picture. We can then

enjoy the world without being in any way

affected by it.

The more we grow in love and virtue and

holiness, the more we see love and virtue

and holiness outside. All condemnation of

others really condemns ourselves. Adjustthe microcosm (which is in your power to

do) and the macrocosm will adjust itself

for you.


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It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what

it is for us. Our thought make things beautiful, our

thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own

minds. Learn to see things in the proper light. First,

believe in this world --------------- that there is meaningbehind everything. Everything in the world is good, is

holy and beautiful. If you see something evil, think that

you are not understanding it in the right light. Throw the

burden on yourselves!

THE WHOLE OF LIFE IS ONLY A SWAN SONG!

NEVER FORGET THOSE LINES:

The lion, when stricken to the heart,

gives out his mightiest roar.

When smitten on the head, the cobra lifts its hood.

And the majesty of the soul comes forth,

only when a man is wounded to his depths.

If we enjoy everything in the Self, and as theSelf, no misery or reaction will come.

Seeing difference is the cause of all misery,

and ignorance is the cause of seeing

difference.

Never mind failures; they are quite

natural, they are the beauty of life---------these failures.What would life be without

them?It would not be worth having if it

were not for struggles. Where would be the

poetry of life? Never mind the struggles,


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the mistakes. I never heard a cow tell a lie,

but it is only a cow---------never a man. So

never mind these failures, these little

backslidings; hold the ideal a thousandtimes; and if you fail a thousand times, make

the attempt once more. Those that want to help mankind must take their own

pleasure and pain, name and fame, and all sorts of

interests, and make a bundle of them and throw them

into the sea, and then come to the Lord. This is what all

the Master said and did.

The knowing ones must have pity on the ignorant.

Think always, I am ever-pure, ever-knowing, and ever-

free. How I can do anything evil? Can I ever be fooled

like ordinary people with the insignificant charms of

lust and wealth? Strengthen the mind with such

thoughts. This will surely bring real good.

Do not be miserable! Do not repent! What is done is

done. This world for me, not I for the world.Good and evil are

our slaves, not we theirs. It is the nature of the brute to

remain where he is (not to progress); it is the nature of man to

seek good and avoid bad; it is the nature of God to seek

neither, but just to be eternally blissful. Let us be gods! Make

the heart like an ocean;go beyond all the trifles of the

world; be mad with joy even at evil, see the world as a

picture and then enjoy its beauty, knowing that nothing

affects you. Children finding glass beads in a mud puddle,that is the good of the world.Look at it with calm

complacency;see good and evil as the same,both are

merely Gods play; enjoy all.

Many of us get many messages in our lives, or think we

get them. As long as the message is regarding our own


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selves, go on doing what you please. But when it is in

regard to our contact with and behavior to others, think

a hundred times before you act upon itand then you

will be safe.

None can hate others without degenerating himself. Do not repent, do not brood over past deeds. You can

not undo, the effect must come, face it; but be careful

never to do the same thing again.

We Vedantists in every difficulty ought to ask the

subjective questions, Why do I see that? Why can I

not conquer this with love?

It is very easy to search for faults, but the characteristic

of a saint lies in looking for merits. Do not go about throwing mud at others; for all the

faults you suffer from, you are the sole and only cause.

We cannot see impurity without having it inside

ourselves.

Live in harmony with all. Give up all idea of

egoism, and entertain no sectarian views.

Useless wrangling is a great sin. Let men have light, let them be pure and

spiritually strong and educated, then alone will

misery cease in the world, not before. Knowing that the Love is everywhere, the sages give up

praising and blaming.

Do not drag others down to where you are.

Remove the veils of ignorance by purity, then we

manifest ourselves as we really are and know that wewere never in bondage.


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Cont evil chapter 84

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Modified Never talk about the faults of others, no matter

how bad they may be. Nothing is ever gained by

that. You never help anyone by telling about his

faults, but you do him an injury, and injure

yourself as well.

The more opposition there is, the better. Does a

river acquire velocity unless there is resistance?

The newer and better a thing is the more


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opposition it will meet with the onset.It is

opposition which foretells success.

This is the first lesson to learn: be determined

not to curse anything outside, not to lay blameupon anyone outside, but be a man, stand up, lay

the blame on yourself. You will find that is

always true.Get hold of yourself.

Do not go against anything-----------ours is to

put the chemicals together, the Lord knows how

and when the crystal will form.

Do not be jealous of anyone. Look not to the

faults of others.

It is that eternal love, unruffled equanimity under

all circumstances, and perfect freedom from

jealousy or animosity that will tell. That will

tell, nothing else.

Avoid jealousy and selfishness.

Be jealous of none.

Throw overboard all idea of jealousy and

egotism, once for all.

Take care of these two things---------------love of

power and jealousy.

One must be a servant of servants and must

accommodate a thousand minds. There must not

be a shade of jealousy or selfishness, then you

are a leader.


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This rascal ego must be obliterated. Powers to

help mankind is with the silent ones who only

live and love and withdraw their own personality

entirely. Know that talking ill of others in private is a sin.

You must wholly avoid it. Many things may

occur to the mind, but it gradually makes a

mountain of a mole-hill, if you try to express

them.Everything ends, if you forgive and

forget. How Evil is destroyed.

We must try our best to destroy ignorance and evil; only

we have to learn that evil is destroyed by the growth of

good.

The chief cause of all evil

Know partiality to be the chief cause of all

evil.


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