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Success for the striven washes away the effort of striving.

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Success for the striven washes away the effort of striving.
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Anand Thakur
Even genius is tied to profit.
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Anand Thakur
I will not steep my speech in lies; the test of any man lies in action.
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Action Lying Man Myself Speech
When men succeed, even their neighbors think them wise.
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Anand Thakur
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
With our mortal minds we should seek from the gods that which becomes us.
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Anand Thakur
The present will not long endure.
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Anand Thakur
For lawless joys a bitter ending waits.
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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
Convention is the ruler of all.
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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
O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible.
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Aspiration Immortal Limitation Myself Possible Soul
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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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
My 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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Anand Thakur
Many a time the thing left silent makes for happiness.
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Anand Thakur

Success for the striven washes away the effort of striving.

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