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
May God grant me love for that which has splendor; but in this time of my life let me strive for attainable things.
PINDARCreatures 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.
PINDARHe is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural inspiration.
PINDARSuccess for the striven washes away the effort of striving.
PINDARTime is the best preserver of righteous men.
PINDARWe are things of a day. What are we? What are we not? The shadow of a dream is man, no more.
PINDARMy God grant me love for that which has splendor, but in this time of my life let me strive for attainable things.
PINDARWhen men succeed, even their neighbors think them wise.
PINDAROne race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.
PINDARThere 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.
PINDARConvention is the ruler of all.
PINDARTime is the turning over of days, works change for better or worse.
PINDARFinding that the middle condition of life is by far the happiest, I look with little favor upon that of princes.
PINDARLearn what you are and be such.
PINDARNatural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of teaching.
PINDARNot 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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