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Sentiment Sentiment plays a very important role in the life of every individual. Hence sages look not so much at the material deeds of men, as at the subtle sentiments operating beneath the deeds. The act may be the same, but, if the sentiment behind differs, the consequence must needs be contradictory too. The cat seizes the rat with the self-same teeth she catches hold of her kitten. But the difference between the two is commensurate with the difference marking the distance between hell and heaven. Whereas in one reigns the urge for destruction, in the other prevails the urge for protection!
Life's Glory Friend! Where is the need of affluence, if love is chaste? What is the worth of money, when life is invaluable? Where the need of regulations, when continence is unsullied? And where, indeed, the need of the convent, when the mind is consecrated?
