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Success for the striven washes away the effort of striving.

Pindar

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
There are many roads to happiness, if the gods assent.
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God Happiness Road
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
Natural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of teaching.
PINDAR

Anand Thakur
Success for the striven washes away the effort of striving.
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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
Envy, the attendant of the empty mind.
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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
If any man thinks to swindle God, he is wrong.
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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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Anand Thakur
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
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
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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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
Every noble deed dieth, if suppressed in silence.
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Noble Silence
Man’s pleasure is a short time growing And it falls to the ground As quickly.
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Anand Thakur

Success for the striven washes away the effort of striving.

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