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

Pindar

Men are the dreams of a shadow.
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Anand Thakur
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
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
Success for the striven washes away the effort of striving.
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Anand Thakur
A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
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Anand Thakur
I will be small in small things, great among great.
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Anand Thakur
In all things rest is sweet; there is sure feit even in honey, even in Aphrodites lovely flowers.
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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
Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.
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Affection Gift Greatness Heaven Reality Small
If any man thinks to swindle God, he is wrong.
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Anand Thakur
Words have a longer life than deeds.
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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
There 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.
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Anand Thakur
Unsung, the noblest deed will die.
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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
Even success softens not the heart of the envious.
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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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