To bear lightly the neck’s yoke brings strength; but kicking against the goads is the way of failure.
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Anand Thakur
To bear lightly the neck’s yoke brings strength; but kicking against the goads is the way of failure.
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Even now I am full of hope, but the end lies in God.
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The test of any man lies in action.
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Man’s pleasure is a short time growing And it falls to the ground As quickly.
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To each thing belongs it’s measure. Occasion is best to know.
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Unsung, the noblest deed will die.
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Point thy tongue on the anvil of truth.
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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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Skills vary with the man. We must tread a straight path and strive by that which is born in us.
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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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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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Sweet is war to those who know it not.
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To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied.
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There are many roads to happiness, if the gods assent.
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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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Often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
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