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 not from the forces within. Though perhaps this is true of all kingdoms."

"The present is only a single second, a point like a degree of latitude. Man's life is mostly past. With a fragment of future lying before him to be glimpsed. But the present is so fleeting, it is of no measurable worth."

"In time to come every man will be called to account for all the good things which his eyes beheld and which he refused to enjoy. The blind man therefore is more certain of attaining Nirvana since he has less transgression for which to answer."

"God of Creation gave eternity to mountains, to diamonds, to stars, but to man he gave only the briefest span of existence. He is but a weary traveler slowly plodding over the Bridge of Life. He is a fool who stops to build a house upon it. He struggles endlessly, sacrifices everything for the existence which he believes will come after death. But he squanders and wastes that portion of earthly life which he knows is here."

"The credulous beggar by the roadside is