The noblest of the elements is water.

We are things of a day. What are we? What are we not? The shadow of a dream is man, no more.
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Day Dreams Man Shadow
Sweet is war to those who know it not.
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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
A good deed hidden in silence dies.
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Anand Thakur
If any man thinks to swindle God, he is wrong.
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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
Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.
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Anand Thakur
Finding that the middle condition of life is by far the happiest, I look with little favor upon that of princes.
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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
The noblest of the elements is water.
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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
Success for the striven washes away the effort of striving.
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Anand Thakur
It is God that accomplishes all term to hopes, God, who overtakes the flying eagle, outpasses the dolphin in the sea; who bends under his strength the man with thoughts too high.
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Anand Thakur
Time is the best preserver of righteous men.
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Anand Thakur
To each thing belongs it’s measure. Occasion is best to know.
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Anand Thakur
Even genius is tied to profit.
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Anand Thakur

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