Property:HPB Gem text
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"He abused me, he reviled me, he beat me, he subdued me"; he who keeps this in mind, and who feels resentment, will find no peace. +
"My sons are mine; this wealth is mine": with such thoughts is a fool tormented. He himself does not belong to himself, much less sons and wealth. +
"The untouched soul,<br>
Greater than all the worlds (because the worlds<br>
By it subsist); smaller than subtleties<br>
Of things minutest; last of ultimates;<br>
Sits in the hollow heart of all that lives!<br>
Whoso hath laid aside desire and fear,<br>
His senses mastered, and his spirit still,<br>
Sees in the quiet light of verity<br>
Eternal, safe, majestical – HIS SOUL!" +
..this is truth the poet sings, // That a sorrow's crown of sorrows is remembering happier things. +
A chariot cannot go on one wheel alone; so destiny fails unless men's acts co-operate. +
A good man may receive pure knowledge even from an inferior; the highest virtue from the lowest. +
A good word in time is better than a sweet pie after meals. +
A great man is he who is proof against flattery, vanity, injustice, and the love of pomp and power. +
A just life, a religious life, this is the best gem. +
A learned man without pupils, is a tree which bears no fruit; a devotee without good works, is a dwelling without a door. +
A little hill in a low place thinks itself a great mountain. +
A man can rarely be unhappy by being ignorant of another's thoughts; but he that does not attend to the motions of his own is certainly unhappy. +
A misfortune that cometh from on high cannot be averted; caution is useless against the decrees of Fate. +
A narrow stomach may be filled to its satisfaction, but a narrow mind will never be satisfied, not even with all the riches of the world. +
A stone becomes a plant; a plant a beast; the beast a man; a man a Spirit; and the Spirit – GOD. +
A student without inclination for work is like a squirrel on its wheel; he makes no progress. +
A teacher is more venerable than ten sub-teachers; a father, than one hundred teachers; a mother, than a thousand fathers. +
A thousand regrets will not pay thy debts. +
A traveller without observation is a bird without wings. +
A wise man should ever shrink from honour as from poison, and should always be desirous of disrespect as if of ambrosia. +