There are men who just surrender to whatever comes—they say ‘it was so destined, it was so fated’. This is the coward’s attitude. True that there are turns of fortune and they determine our life. But efforts can change the direction of the wind. Will can move mountains. Man should keep on with his efforts; […]
“Heaven lies about us in our infancy”, says Wordsworth. According to him, a child is a seer and a philosopher. A child may not be a philosopher, but certainly, he has in him saintly qualities of innocence, love and joy. He is free from malice, hatred and vice. He loves everybody who loves him. It
Books are the biggest treasure-house of knowledge. They are the living example of man’s march on the path to higher and higher civilization. The great men who died long ago, are still alive in their books. We feel their very personality and existence when we read their books. We feel as if they were conversing
The renowned English poet, John Keats, begins his famous poem: Endymion with the line—’A thing of beauty is a joy forever.’ A thing of beauty touches the human heart as nothing else does. It elevates the human soul. Man feels some inexpressible inner joy. The experience is unforgettable.The beauty of nature is the greatest gift
Let us go back in time, centuries or millenniums ago, when man had evolved from apes or when God created man—whichever notion you may adhere to, with ape-like features, attitude, habits he learnt from nature. He learnt that weather and seasons changed, that some berries were sweet to taste, some were bitter and some made
Slavery does not only mean the slavery of body. When slavery existed in the society, a slave had no existence of his own—neither physical nor mental. He could neither move nor speak without the permission of the master. Now, with the changed time, the concept of human slavery has largely been eradicated from the society.
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Man has been gifted the gift of speech by God except one who may be born dumb. The tongue is a supple organ and is ever ready to move; sometimes it move too fast. People talk and sometimes begin talking a lot and one who talks a lot does sometimes talk irrelevant and even irresponsible.
Love of one’s own country is called ‘Patriotism’. Everyone has the right to love his country; rather everyone should posess a feeling of love for his country.A man is dead of ‘soul’ if he has not within himself the love of his land. It is patriotism which has inspired martyrs to give up their for
All men are liable to commit mistakes and fall a victim to follies. This makes man’s position weak and vulnerable. Therefore, one must be very cautious and careful in casting aspersions on others or finding faults of others. The other men so criticized can also find faults in you. So if you are living in
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Man has been given a body, but he has also been given a mind and a soul. It is only the body which can be put in a prison or behind iron bars. But none can stop the mind to travel and the soul to soar high. Jawaharlal Nehru was imprisoned by the British for
Stone Walls Do not Make a Prison
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Wordsworth, the great English poet, had earlier said in one of his Sonnets:The world’s too much with us,Getting and spending we lay waste our powers.Little do we see in Nature that is our’s.It is the same idea which poet W.H.Davies has expressed in the above noted couplet. God has created the whole world of Nature
Life is not for one’s own self; it is given to spread love and light to others too. One who does that lives long even after he is gone. Even a short life, just like that of a lily flower, which just lives for a day, is so meaningful. The lily of the garden which
We are born in this world and are designed and destined to play our part. Whatever part has been allotted to us, that has to be played well and it is only then it would be said that we lived well. People would remember us and we would leave our footprints on the sand of
In a contract, there are always two parties and the contract gets signed only when both the parties agree to its provisions. Similarly life in the society is also a contract between the individuals who form the society. Each one has to take due care that the other one agrees to your way of behavior—one
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‘Every cloud has a silver lining’ that is how a saying goes. Adversity—suffering and poverty—also has its advantages. Suffering brings out in man’s character his capacity to endure; his strength of character and his self-confidence. When a man is doing well, he feels that the world is all good and pleasant. He hardly knows what