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No durable things are built on violent passion. Nature grows her plants in silence and in darkness, and only when they have become strong do they put their heads above the ground.

~Annie Besant

Topics: Above Become Built Darkness Durable Ground Grows Heads Her Nature Only Passion Plants Put Silence Strong Things Violent

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There is a charm in making a stew, to the unaccustomed cook, from the excitement of wondering what the result will be, and whether any flavour save that of onions will survive the competition in the mixture.

~Annie Besant

Topics: Any Charm Competition Cook Excitement Making Mixture Onions Result Save Stew Survive Whether Will Wondering

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Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so remote as to be forgotten. But they trample with their heavy boots over the sensitive, delicate susceptibilities of an ancient, highly civilized and cultured nation, such as India.

~Annie Besant

Topics: Ancient Boots Brutal Civilized Colonists Come Delicate Entirely Forgotten Good Heavy Highly India Nation Often Over Past Relations Remote Sensitive Though Trample Tribes Where Whose

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Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual, in order that he may be able to master and to rule them, and in later ages take his place in the creative and directing hierarchies of the universe.

~Annie Besant

Topics: Able Ages Below Creative Directing Experience Flesh Gaining He His Intelligence Later Man Master May Object Order Place Rule Spiritual Take Taken Them Universe Who Worlds

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What is the constitution of the universe? The universe is the manifestation of the divine thought; the thought of God embodies itself in the thought-forms that we call worlds.

~Annie Besant

Topics: Call Constitution Divine Embodies God Itself Manifestation Thought Universe Worlds

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India is a country in which every great religion finds a home.

~Annie Besant

Topics: Country Every Finds Great Home India Religion Which

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In a deep metaphysical sense, all that is conditioned is illusory. All phenomena are literally 'appearances,' the outer masks in which the One Reality shows itself forth in our changing universe. The more 'material' and solid the appearance, the further is it from reality, and therefore the more illusory it is.

~Annie Besant

Topics: Appearance Appearances Changing Conditioned Deep Forth Further Itself Literally Masks Material Metaphysical More Our Outer Phenomena Reality Reality Shows Sense Shows Solid Therefore Universe Which

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A people can prosper under a very bad government and suffer under a very good one, if in the first case the local administration is effective and in the second it is inefficient.

~Annie Besant

Topics: Administration Bad Bad Government Case Effective First Good Government Inefficient Local People Prosper Second Suffer Very

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To me in my childhood, elves and fairies of all sorts were very real things, and my dolls were as really children as I was myself a child.

~Annie Besant

Topics: Child Childhood Children Dolls Elves Fairies Me Myself Real Really Sort Things Very Were

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I was a wife and mother, blameless in moral life, with a deep sense of duty and a proud self-respect; it was while I was this that doubt struck me, and while I was in the guarded circle of the home, with no dream of outside work or outside liberty, that I lost all faith in Christianity.

~Annie Besant

Topics: Blameless Christianity Circle Deep Doubt Dream Duty Faith Guarded Home Liberty Life Lost Me Moral Mother Outside Proud Self-Respect Sense Struck While Wife Work

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Philosopher

Born: October 1st, 1847

Died: September 20th, 1933

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