“We must bear our cross…not because it is sweet to suffer, but because the pain and suffering are as nothing compared with the greatness of the issues involved.”

— Mahadev Govind Ranade

Speaking on issues of two duties of the two ideals of conduct and the two forms of duty quoted in page=488.

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Indian scholar, social reformer and author 1842–1901

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