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
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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Mankind is a dream of a shadow.
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Water is best, but gold shines like fire blazing in the night, supreme of lordly wealth.
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With our mortal minds we should seek from the gods that which becomes us.
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I will be small in small things, great among great.
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My 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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Convention is the ruler of all.
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Time is the turning over of days, works change for better or worse.
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There are many roads to happiness, if the gods assent.
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A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well.
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Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth and what flies up, though it be but a spark, will have light.
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Creatures 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.
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Rich man and poor move side by side toward the limit of death.
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Men are the dreams of a shadow.
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Sweet is war to those who know it not.
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Water is the best of all things.
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