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Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.

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Point thy tongue on the anvil of truth.
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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
Time is the turning over of days, works change for better or worse.
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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
Law, the king of all mortals and immortals.
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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
Man’s pleasure is a short time growing And it falls to the ground As quickly.
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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
Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.
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Anand Thakur
Success for the striven washes away the effort of striving.
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Anand Thakur
One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.
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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
Words have a longer life than deeds.
PINDAR

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

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