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.

O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible.
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Aspiration Immortal Limitation Myself Possible Soul
Humble in a humble state and great in greatness, I will work out the divinity that is busy within my mind.
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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
Point thy tongue on the anvil of truth.
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If any man thinks to swindle God, he is wrong.
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Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.
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I will be small in small things, great among great.
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A good deed hidden in silence dies.
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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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Learn what you are and be such.
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Time is the best preserver of righteous men.
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The race of gods and men is one, and from one mother we both draw our breath. Yet all the difference in our power holds us apart, so that man is nothing, but the brazen floor of heaven is eternally unshakable.
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Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.
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A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
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Law, the king of all mortals and immortals.
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The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.
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