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Though God alone never tastes woe, Yet that man is happy, and poets sing of him, Who conquers with hand or swift foot And wins the greatest of prizes By steadfastness and strength.

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Words have a longer life than deeds.
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Anand Thakur
Man’s pleasure is a short time growing And it falls to the ground As quickly.
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Anand Thakur
If one but tell a thing well, it moves on with undying voice, and over the fruitful earth and across the sea goes the bright gleam of noble deeds ever unquenchable.
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Death Earth Move Sea Voice
Even genius is tied to profit.
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Anand Thakur
Water is the best of all things.
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Anand Thakur
Even now I am full of hope, but the end lies in God.
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Anand Thakur
We are things of a day. What are we? What are we not? The shadow of a dream is man, no more.
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Day Dreams Man Shadow
To each thing belongs it’s measure. Occasion is best to know.
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Anand Thakur
Of the good things given between man and man, I say that a neighbor, true and loving in heart, to neighbor is a joy beyond all things else.
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Anand Thakur
There are many roads to happiness, if the gods assent.
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God Happiness Road
Point thy tongue on the anvil of truth.
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Anand Thakur
Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.
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Anand Thakur
Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth and what flies up, though it be but a spark, will have light.
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Anand Thakur
Finding that the middle condition of life is by far the happiest, I look with little favor upon that of princes.
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Anand Thakur
Creatures 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.
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Anand Thakur
Though God alone never tastes woe, Yet that man is happy, and poets sing of him, Who conquers with hand or swift foot And wins the greatest of prizes By steadfastness and strength.
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Anand Thakur

Though God alone never tastes woe, Yet that man is happy, and poets sing of him, Who conquers with hand or swift foot And wins the greatest of prizes By steadfastness and strength.

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Though God alone never tastes woe, Yet that man is happy, and poets sing of him, Who conquers with hand or swift foot And wins the greatest of prizes By steadfastness and strength.

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