"Every affliction has its own rich lesson to teach, if we would learn it."
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"Weeding is as necessary to agriculture as sowing."
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"I am a Christian and a Hindu and a Muslim and a Jew."
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"Peace is the state where love abides and seeks to share itself."
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"Religion is not what you will get after reading all the scriptures of the world. It is not really what is grasped by the grain. It is a heart grasp."
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"It will profit you nothing to remember old wrongs and nurse old enmities."
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"A man who has broken with his past feels a different man. He will not feel it a shame to confess his past wrongs, for the simple reason that these wrongs do not touch him at all."
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"If you think the world is all wrong, remember that it contains people like you."
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"Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know."
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"I can combine the greatest love with the greatest opposition to wrong."
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"It is quite proper to resist and attack a system, but to resist and attack its author is tantamount to resisting and attacking oneself, for we are all tarred with the same brush, and are children of one and the same Creator, and as such the divine powers within us are infinite. To slight a single human being, is to slight those divine powers and thus to harm not only that Being, but with Him, the whole world."
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"Insistence on truth can come into play when one party practices untruth or injustice. Only then can love be tested. True friendship is put to the test only when one party disregards the obligation of friendship."
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"No matter what the cause was and wherever it was, Indian governments must never requisition the services of British soldiers to deal with civil disturbances."
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"Christianity in India is inextricably mixed up for the last hundred and fifty years with the British rule."
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"My heart rebels against any foreigner imposing on my country the peace which is here called Pax-Britannica."
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"It would be a sad day for India if it has to inherit the English scale and the English tastes so utterly unsuitable to the Indian environment."
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"Of all the superstitions that affect India, none is so great as that a knowledge of the English language is necessary for imbibing ideas of liberty and developing accuracy to thought."
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"I refuse to put the unnecessary strain of learning English upon my sisters for the sake of false pride or questionable social advantage."
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"We, the English educated Indians, often unconsciously make the terrible mistake of thinking that the microscopic minority of the English-speaking Indians is the whole of India."
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"The English language is so elastic that you can find another word to say the same thing."
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