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Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.

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Success abides longer among men when it is planted by the hand of God.
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Anand Thakur
If any man thinks to swindle God, he is wrong.
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Men are the dreams of a shadow.
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The forehead of every work must shine from afar.
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Success for the striven washes away the effort of striving.
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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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Time is the best preserver of righteous men.
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To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied.
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Fate Jealous Noble Pity
Wrapt up in error is the human mind, And human bliss is ever insecure; Know we what fortune yet remains behind? Know we how long the present shall endure?
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Endurance Errors Fortune Human Insecure Mindset
He is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural inspiration.
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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
Man’s pleasure is a short time growing And it falls to the ground As quickly.
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Anand Thakur
Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.
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Affection Gift Greatness Heaven Reality Small
Even genius is tied to profit.
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Anand Thakur
It is God that accomplishes all term to hopes, God, who overtakes the flying eagle, outpasses the dolphin in the sea; who bends under his strength the man with thoughts too high.
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Anand Thakur
I will be small in small things, great among great.
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Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.

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