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Sweet are the Uses of Adversity

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Introduction
Dark and detestable as adversity is, it has yet an importantend to serve in our life.
Pain is a necessary part of life, as inevitable as the ‘shades of darkness falling softly from the wings of night’ after the day is done.
If there were no pain, there would not have been pleasures as well.
“He thathas no cross will have no crown.”
Adversity strengthens and develops our faculties.
“The storms of adversity, like those of the ocean rouse the faculties, and excite the invention, prudence, skill and fortitude of the voyager.”
Adversity teaches us virtues of courage, fortitude, and firmness.
All the scientific inventions and discoveries are the result of natural adversities and man’s struggle for surviving against them.
Life of our Holy Prophet (PBUH) was full with extreme hardships, but God has blessed Him with highest glory among all greatmen of the world.
Even in our ordinary routine life, we like the person who suffers the hardships of professionalism in his field.
A man’s life is measured not by the years he lives, but by the volume of works he has done. A death is inevitable, the goal of life should not be to make in long without any purpose but to make it purposeful even though short.

13. Conclusion

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Peace Hath her Victories no Less Renowned than War

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Introduction
Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon, Chengiz khan and Tamerlane, great warriors and emperors of the history, their glorious victories are based on the scalps of demolished countries and civilization.
Napoleon, the greatest soldier of all times, the performer of miracles, brought tremendous glories to France atthe cost of its depopulationcomplete rein of enemies’ countries.
In warwe cannot construct, it only destroys.
Apparent achievement gained through it is short living. After Alexander’s death, his great empire was broken into fragments. Napoleon, having brought many countries under his sway, wasfinally defeated by his own victims.
In contrary, peace brings everlasting fruits to the whole humanity: scientific inventor, great theories of philosophers, and marvelous pieces of art and literature.
War turns to useful invention, great sources of human betterment in peace, like nuclear energy into destructive means like Atom and Hydrogen bombs.
In war man fights against his fellows, against other men; in peace he fights against poverty, disease and ignorance.
Achievements through peaceful means rules over heart, while power causes only hatred: Louis Pasture, the eminent French scientist, outclassed Napoleon in a contest for the greatest Frenchman in the eye of French people.
War causes a prejudice and discriminataion, ever unacceptable vices to human conscience, among human being but scientific inventions, literary works, and philosophies are meant to uproot these evils.
Our Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) brought the biggest revolution in the history of the world, through love and knowledge.
Jinnah founded the biggest Muslim state of the world without killing even a single man.
Whatever point angle we look at the matter, victories of peace emerge greater than those of war. With increasing knowledge and world becoming a global village, it is hoped that war would become a thing of past.
Conclusion

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Where there is a Will There is a Way

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Introduction
Little strokes fell greatoaks
Patience and perseverance will overcome mountain
Napoleon: impossible is word that is found only in the dictionary of fool.
Sir Isaac Newton, despite several obstacles thrown in his way to mathematical studies, emerged as the greatest mathematicianof the world just owing to strong determination.
The spider in the story of”Robert Bruce and the spider” though failed nine times to reach the highest point, succeeded at last. Much impressed by little insect, Robert took heart, tried again and succeeded.
On being laughed down on his first appearance in the House of Commons, Lord Beaconsfield angrily exclaimed, “the time will come when you shall hear me”. And with his firm determination he emerged as one of the greatest orators of England.
Apparently insuperable difficulties vanish in nothingness of a dream if we are fired by a heroic determination and strong will to strive to seek, to find and not to yield.

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Young Habits Die Hard

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Introduction
What we do often, we soon begin to do it always, and thus habit will grow to be the part of our naturalself.
Aristotle:”That, which has become habitual, becomes as it were a part of our nature.”
Plato once scolded a child gambling with nuts. The child replied,”You are scolding me for a trifle. Plato gravely said,”Habit is not trifle.”
Habit is the basis of character and man is regarded by society according to his habits and disposition.
Once a habit is formed, we are practically at its mercy.
“Habit is overcome by habit.”
A character is nothing but a bundle of habits.
Aristotle:”Men acquire a particular quality by constantlyacting in a particular way.”
An English writer:”Sow an act, and you reap a habit, sow a habit and you reap a character, sow a character, and you reap a destiny.’ Excellent habits render the most difficult task easy to perform.”
The best way, therefore, of building up character is to create desirablehabits.
But one should not allow even good habits to take the place of one’s free and rational will. A soldier was going with a dish of food when a miscellaneous urchin cried, “Attention”! The soldier automaticallydropped his dish and stood at attention.
Wordsworth:”Habit rules the unreflecting here.”
Habits should be limited to routine activities only: but in the higher things of life, in making decisions, in operating our will, what is needed is not a settled habit, but the rational exercise of one’s free will.
Let us be able to say with the Roman Sallust,”For me who has spentmy whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct has become a habit.”

16. Conclusion

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Liberty Means Responsibility, that is Why Most Men Red it

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Introduction
So long as in individual, is in the bondage to self, he can neither know nor experience the joy of liberty.
“Oh I do not feel like doing that just know”, or “Oh do not feel like going”. Such are the expressions bring calm and deliberate reason to bear on all things. Say to yourself,”This is a matter of right and wrong, and my feelings have a nothing whatever to do with it.”
Prejudices and partialities blind the eyes to realities.
Craving for pleasure is perhaps worst of the bondage which leads men and women to the deepest of slavery.
A wise man never envies another being disconnected with his share of things.
The slave to feelings and passions is ever sinning and repenting.
No man can be free and happy who does not work.
Carlyle: “Labor is ever lasting, noble and holy. It is the source of all perfection. No man can become accomplish without work.”
Liberty is obedience to laws of God that causes responsibility.
Being the strongest of moral tonics, work is the grand cure of all maladies and miseries.
There is no bondage in the Heavenly life. There is perfect freedom which is gained by obedience. He who gives a loose rein to inclinations is a slave to his passions. He cannot control his passions. That is why he avoids responsibility.
Conclusion

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Life is Action, Not Contemplation

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Introduction
Goethe: what is this life? A struggle or a dream? Perhaps both if it is the one, life is action and if it is the other, life is contemplation.
Action is recognized as vital even though its end is not clear. Whether we choose our actions or we are driven to do them from within it is all the same.
The two aspects of action contemplation constitute life, they are inseparable. Even in the mildest life of”simple live and high thinking”action has a part to play.
The riddle of life cannot be solved by action alone; contemplation and meditation are equally necessary to probe into it.
Struggle makes us strong. Like virtue it has its own reward, it gives us character.
Too much thinking is a disease akin to melancholia. It keeps us depressed, gloomy, and dyspeptic.
A spider working inward soon envelopes himself in a web; similarly merely abstract thinking confuses the brain.
The progress of the world is the result of equal contributions of great thinkers and actors.
“Play up, play up, play up the game.”
Healthy mind lives in a healthy body; actions give us health.
Thoughts, unless translated into actual shape, do not come to bloom but, die into embryo.
Subcontinent’s past is rich in the fruits of contemplation but the present needs action.
Thought, to be complete, demands action, and action without thought has no lasting value. The best life is that which is lived both in thought and deeds.

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One Man’s Food is another’s Poison

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Introduction
This proverb takes variety of taste in food as a typical illustration of the difference between man and man in susceptibility to various pleasures.
On international level, almost every nation has some peculiar delicacy, which would be rejected with loathing by the rest of the world.
Existence of cannibals, Muslims slaughter cows while Hindus don not meet at all.
The savants of Australia eat insects and grubs.
Among the great varieties of castes and tribes to be found in Pakistan, some are known to eat serpents and one low caste devours greedily the flesh of cattle’s died of disease.
In modern Europe the Frenchman’s taste for frogs seems horrible and unnatural to the ordinary Englishman.
The same case is at individual level.
This strange antipathy may be regarded as exaggerated forms of likes and dislikes.
There is the same diversity of tastes: hunting, intellectual and reading books out-door games, public life and seclusion.
Even there are strongly marked special differences in general similarity: if we talks of fiction it includes tragedy (classical and modern), comedy, comic tragedy, social, political, romantic, and adventurous etc.
This diversity is the beauty of this universe without which it would become lackluster.
Conclusion

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A Righteous Man Regards the Life of his Beast

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Introduction
It is a verse from Bible that means making kindness and justice to domestic animals is an essential part of human virtue.
Those animals such as the horse, dogs, donkey and mules, which men have bred and trained for their own use have a special claim on our mercy and justice.
A great deal of cruelty to animals is due simply to thoughtlessness and lack of imagination. People put wild birds into cages just for their own pleasure seeking, and they brutally ignore wild’s own feelings and pleasures.
As far as killing animals for food is concerned, it is man’s duty to see that such animals are killed painlessly.
Our Holy Prophet (PBUH) has taught kindness and love with domestic animals.

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The Fruits of Labor are Sweeter than the Gifts of Fortune

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Introduction
Rewards of one’s own exertions and endeavor afford much greater delight than any inherit wealth, a legacy, or a lottery.
There is keen pleasure in honest labor of farmer, a student, a mountaineer, a servant etc.
Labor not only results in a more delightful reward, but it also makes the laborer mature enough to enjoy and sustain this reward for a long time.
On the other hand, the pleasure in the gifts of fortune can never be genuine.
Gift of fortune tend to make a man idle. Resultantly, he loses his fortune very soon making his life full of miseries.

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Man is the Architect of His Own Fortune

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Introduction
The fortune of a man depends upon his own self; he can make or mar according as he wishes.
A man who possesses a strong will and a firm determination finds all difficulties solved.
Every man reaps the results of his own actions. If he is active, he will be rewarded for his activity and if he is idle, he will have to suffer for his idleness.
To trust to fate and remain inactive is nothing but cowardice, and it is idle to expect hat fortune will ever favor such cowards.
It is thus clear that man cannot improve his condition in life or get fame and fortune unless he will sit and acts in accordance with his wish.

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