The noblest of the elements is water.

Water is best, but gold shines like fire blazing in the night, supreme of lordly wealth.
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Anand Thakur
War is sweet for those who haven’t experienced it.
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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
Success abides longer among men when it is planted by the hand of God.
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Anand Thakur
Every noble deed dieth, if suppressed in silence.
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Noble Silence
One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.
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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
The present will not long endure.
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Anand Thakur
The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.
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Anand Thakur
If any man thinks to swindle God, he is wrong.
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Anand Thakur
There are many roads to happiness, if the gods assent.
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God Happiness Road
A good deed hidden in silence dies.
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Anand Thakur
Success for the striven washes away the effort of striving.
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Anand Thakur
Convention is the ruler of all.
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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
When men succeed, even their neighbors think them wise.
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Anand Thakur

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