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.
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The present will not long endure.
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Skills vary with the man. We must tread a straight path and strive by that which is born in us.
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My God grant me love for that which has splendor, but in this time of my life let me strive for attainable things.
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Learn what you are and be such.
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When men succeed, even their neighbors think them wise.
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In all things rest is sweet; there is sure feit even in honey, even in Aphrodites lovely flowers.
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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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Rich man and poor move side by side toward the limit of death.
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War is sweet for those who haven’t experienced it.
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To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied.
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For lawless joys a bitter ending waits.
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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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One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.
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Words have a longer life than deeds.
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May God grant me love for that which has splendor; but in this time of my life let me strive for attainable things.
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