For lawless joys a bitter ending waits.
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Anand Thakur
For lawless joys a bitter ending waits.
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A good deed hidden in silence dies.
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O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible.
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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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Men are the dreams of a shadow.
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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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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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Water is best, but gold shines like fire blazing in the night, supreme of lordly wealth.
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Even success softens not the heart of the envious.
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Even now I am full of hope, but the end lies in God.
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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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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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A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
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Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.
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The test of any man lies in action.
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Even genius is tied to profit.
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