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Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
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Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.
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The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.
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Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.
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One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.
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The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.
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A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
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He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.
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God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.
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Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.
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