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A good deed hidden in silence dies.

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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
Man’s pleasure is a short time growing And it falls to the ground As quickly.
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Anand Thakur
Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
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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.
PINDAR

Anand Thakur
For lawless joys a bitter ending waits.
PINDAR

Anand Thakur
Sweet is war to those who know it not.
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Anand Thakur
Even genius is tied to profit.
PINDAR

Anand Thakur
Water is best, but gold shines like fire blazing in the night, supreme of lordly wealth.
PINDAR

Anand Thakur
Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.
PINDAR

Anand Thakur
Envy bestrides praise.
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Anand Thakur
A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
PINDAR

Anand Thakur
Men are the dreams of a shadow.
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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.
PINDAR

Anand Thakur
I will not steep my speech in lies; the test of any man lies in action.
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Action Lying Man Myself Speech
The noblest of the elements is water.
PINDAR

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.
PINDAR

Anand Thakur

A good deed hidden in silence dies.

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