Water is the best of all things.
PINDARVarious are the uses of friends, beyond all else in difficulty, but joy also looks for trust that is clear in the eyes.
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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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Every noble deed dieth, if suppressed in silence.
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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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The noblest of the elements is water.
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To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied.
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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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Water is best, but gold shines like fire blazing in the night, supreme of lordly wealth.
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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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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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To our own sorrows serious heed we give, But for another?s we soon cease to grieve.
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I will be small in small things, great among great.
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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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Many a time the thing left silent makes for happiness.
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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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Often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
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