There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand, they strain into the future, hunting impossibilities on the wings of ineffectual hopes.
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Anand Thakur
There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand, they strain into the future, hunting impossibilities on the wings of ineffectual hopes.
PINDARA thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well.
PINDAROne race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.
PINDARTime is the turning over of days, works change for better or worse.
PINDARWe are things of a day. What are we? What are we not? The shadow of a dream is man, no more.
PINDARIf any man thinks to swindle God, he is wrong.
PINDARO my soul, do not aspire to immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible.
PINDARRich man and poor move side by side toward the limit of death.
PINDARTo each thing belongs it’s measure. Occasion is best to know.
PINDARNot every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
PINDARMy God grant me love for that which has splendor, but in this time of my life let me strive for attainable things.
PINDAREven now I am full of hope, but the end lies in God.
PINDARCreatures of a day, what is any one? What is he not? Man is but a dream of a shadow. Yet when there comes as a gift of heaven a gleam of sunshine, there rest upon men a radiant light and, aye, a gentle life.
PINDARPoint thy tongue on the anvil of truth.
PINDARWhatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.
PINDARSkills vary with the man. We must tread a straight path and strive by that which is born in us.
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