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Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.

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When men succeed, even their neighbors think them wise.
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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
The present will not long endure.
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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 race of gods and men is one, and from one mother we both draw our breath. Yet all the difference in our power holds us apart, so that man is nothing, but the brazen floor of heaven is eternally unshakable.
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Anand Thakur
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
To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied.
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Fate Jealous Noble Pity
Often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
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Anand Thakur
He is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural inspiration.
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Anand Thakur
Convention is the ruler of all.
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Anand Thakur
Every noble deed dieth, if suppressed in silence.
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Noble Silence
The noblest of the elements is water.
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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
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
Time is the best preserver of righteous men.
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Anand Thakur
A good deed hidden in silence dies.
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Anand Thakur

Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.

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