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Words have a longer life than deeds.

Pindar

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
If one but tell a thing well, it moves on with undying voice, and over the fruitful earth and across the sea goes the bright gleam of noble deeds ever unquenchable.
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Death Earth Move Sea Voice
If any man thinks to swindle God, he is wrong.
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Anand Thakur
Many a time the thing left silent makes for happiness.
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Anand Thakur
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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Anand Thakur
There are many roads to happiness, if the gods assent.
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God Happiness Road
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.
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Anand Thakur
The present will not long endure.
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Anand Thakur
The forehead of every work must shine from afar.
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Anand Thakur
Men are the dreams of a shadow.
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Anand Thakur
Convention is the ruler of all.
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Anand Thakur
Skills vary with the man. We must tread a straight path and strive by that which is born in us.
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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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Anand Thakur
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
In all things rest is sweet; there is sure feit even in honey, even in Aphrodites lovely flowers.
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Anand Thakur
Law, the king of all mortals and immortals.
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Anand Thakur
Water is best, but gold shines like fire blazing in the night, supreme of lordly wealth.
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Anand Thakur
With our mortal minds we should seek from the gods that which becomes us.
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Anand Thakur
Man’s pleasure is a short time growing And it falls to the ground As quickly.
PINDAR

Anand Thakur
Often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
PINDAR

Anand Thakur
Words have a longer life than deeds.
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Anand Thakur
Even now I am full of hope, but the end lies in God.
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Anand Thakur
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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Anand Thakur
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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Day Dreams Man Shadow
For lawless joys a bitter ending waits.
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Anand Thakur
Rich man and poor move side by side toward the limit of death.
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Anand Thakur
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.
PINDAR

Anand Thakur

Words have a longer life than deeds.

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