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Life is a river.Compassion-flames are its waves.
Bathe in that river, bathe! ```
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Eat fire, your mouth will burn.Live in debt, your pride will burn.
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Like a parrot, speak.Like a swan, meditate.
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Our mind obeys what our fate says. ```
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Who can reach the limit of his desires? ```
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No pleasure is enjoyed without some pain. ```
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The sun is red at dawn, and at sunset.A great soul remains unchanged in
prosperity and adversity. ```
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Slowly a good man says, “No!”Immediately a wise man says, “No!”
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Giving is in the power of the giver. ```
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He who befriends you is a friend.He who supports you is a father.
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If the tree would not bend when green,will it bend when grown?
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A lamp cannot please a blind man.A song cannot please a deaf man.
A book cannot please a stupid man. ```
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The snake may be small.Nevertheless, hit it with a big stick.
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Without asking, what you get is milk.By begging, what you get is water.
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In one scale, the four Vedas.In another, your common sense.
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Offering without faith is a mere waste of beautiful flowers. ```
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The whole universe is the home of a big heart. ```
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The roots of beliefs are ever green. ```
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What can ever fall from the fallen? ```
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A bad man only promises.A good man immediately acts.
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God loves us not for what we are butwhat He can make of us.
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Great men must die, but death cannot kill them. ```
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God heals and the doctor takes the fee. ```
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The best physicians are:Doctor Diet,
Doctor Quietand Doctor Merriment.
```From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Four Hindu Proverbs, Agni Press, New York, 1992
Sourced from https://srichinmoylibrary.com/hnp