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(6) Intellect gives birth to cruelty, harshness, roughness. Faith's creations are delicacy, softness, nobility. (7) Intellect is a reformed (!) abnormality.
Faith is the civilization of the soul, it is its nature. Intellect is a tarred road. The seeds of preachings spread there just can not grow.
(8)
Glimpses of Sentiments
Faith is the field of fertile black soil. The seeds sown therein can not remain without growing.
(9) Intellect has very intensive interest in attacking other lives. Faith is purely interested in repenting for evil.
(10) Intellect gets blame of others' lives.
Faith offers a kind of relief to other lives.
(11) Intellect believes in medicines given by a doctor. Faith has confidence in good wishes of others.
(12) Anyone surrendering to intellect becomes someone's sinful friend.
Anyone surrendering to faith becomes someone's wellwisher.
(13) Intellect tries to make favourable outside circumstances. Faith is determined in transforming condition of its own mind.
(14) Intellect holds easy work and leaves hard work.
Faith holds good work and leaves wicked, evil work. (15) Intellect sees outward benifit.
Faith looks for internal, steady benififs.
(16) Intellect expresses its own unhappiness, because it craves for sympathy from others.
Faith expresses unhappiness of others because it likes to
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