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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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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
A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well.
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Anand Thakur
If any man thinks to swindle God, he is wrong.
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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
Man’s pleasure is a short time growing And it falls to the ground As quickly.
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Anand Thakur
To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied.
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Fate Jealous Noble Pity
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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Anand Thakur
Water is best, but gold shines like fire blazing in the night, supreme of lordly wealth.
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Anand Thakur
There are many roads to happiness, if the gods assent.
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God Happiness Road
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
Words have a longer life than deeds.
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Anand Thakur
Water is the best of all things.
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Anand Thakur
Sweet is war to those who know it not.
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Anand Thakur
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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Endurance Errors Fortune Human Insecure Mindset
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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Anand Thakur
Learn what you are and be such.
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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.

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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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