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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

Often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
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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
The present will not long endure.
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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
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
The forehead of every work must shine from afar.
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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
Success for the striven washes away the effort of striving.
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Anand Thakur
He is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural inspiration.
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Anand Thakur
Every noble deed dieth, if suppressed in silence.
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Noble Silence
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
When men succeed, even their neighbors think them wise.
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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
May 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
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
If any man thinks to swindle God, he is wrong.
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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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