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Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments.

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A man's worth is not measured by his wealth but by his character and deeds.

In Karmabhoomi (1932)

The rich never go hungry, but the poor are always starving. This is the real tragedy of our society.

In Godaan (1936)

If a woman does not get love in her life, it is better for her to die.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right?

Considerations of high and low, Hindu and Muslim, and untouchability were all anathema to him. When he was superintendent of the schools.

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Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.

Democritus Freeman (1948)

True beauty dwells in deep retreats,
Whose veil is unremoved
Till heart with heart in concord beats,
And the lover is beloved.

William Wordsworth

The great artists are the ones who dare to entitle to beauty things so natural that when they're seen afterward, people say: Why did I never realize before that this too was beautiful?

André Gide The Immoralist (1902)

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator.

William Shakespeare The Rape of Lucrece (1594)

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