To our own sorrows serious heed we give, But for another?s we soon cease to grieve.
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Anand Thakur
To our own sorrows serious heed we give, But for another?s we soon cease to grieve.
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War is sweet for those who haven’t experienced it.
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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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To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied.
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Finding that the middle condition of life is by far the happiest, I look with little favor upon that of princes.
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O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible.
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Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.
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Men are the dreams of a shadow.
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Words have a longer life than deeds.
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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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Natural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of teaching.
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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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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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For lawless joys a bitter ending waits.
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