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Idleness is a great enemy to mankind. There is no friend like energy, for, if you cultivate that, it will never fail.

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The pearl on my beloved’s neck, Afflicted sore the oyster!
BHARTRHARI

Oysters Pearls Sacrifice
Even the severed branch grows again, and the sunken moon returns: wise men who ponder this are not troubled in adversity.
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Adversity Moon Wise
I have not wasted life, but life hath wasted me.
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Life Wasted Life
Knowledge is wonderful and truth serene But man in their service bleeds.
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Knowledge Men Wonderful
Let us keep a firm grip upon our money, for without it the whole assembly of virtues are but as blades of grass.
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Blades Money Virtue
Our life is like th’ unstable wave, Our bloom of youth decays. Our joys are brief as lightning flash In summer’s cloudy days, Our riches fleet as swift as thought; Faith in the One Supreme Alone will bear us o’er the gulfs Of Being’s stormy stream.
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God Joy Summer
I’ve wandered over many lands, and reaped withal no fruit, I’ve laid my pride of rank aside, and pressed my baffled suit, At stranger boards, like shameless crow, I’ve eaten bitter bread, But fierce Desire, that raging fire, still clamours to be fed.
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Fire Land Pride
Idleness is a great enemy to mankind. There is no friend like energy, for, if you cultivate that, it will never fail.
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Enemy Energy Friends No
There is no medicine to cure a fool!
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Cures Fool Medicine
The source of inward happiness which shall outlast the earth– To them e’en kings should yield the palm, and own their higher worth.
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Happiness Inward Kings Source
For a moment man is a boy, for a moment a lovesick youth, for a moment bereft of wealth, for a moment in the height of prosperity; then at life’s end with limbs worn out by old age and wrinkles adorning his face, like an actor he retires behind the curtain of death.
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Boys Men Wrinkles
Man is but a beast without it: such a glorious god is Learning.
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Beast Learning Men
Trees bend low with ripened fruit; clouds hang down with gentle rain; noble people bow graciously. This is the way of generous things.
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Clouds People Rain
Neither rings, bright chains, nor bracelets, perfumes, flowers, nor well-trimmed hair, Grace a man like polished language, th’ only jewel he should wear.
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Flower Hair Men
What is the most profitable? Fellowship with the good. What is the worst thing in the world? The society of evil men. What is the greatest loss? Failure in ones duty.
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Happiness Hero Peace
Fate’s sentence written on the brow no hand can e’er efface.
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Fate Hands

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