Often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Even now I am full of hope, but the end lies in God.
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Anand Thakur
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
Often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
PINDAR

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
Time is the best preserver of righteous men.
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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
Every noble deed dieth, if suppressed in silence.
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Noble Silence
Envy, the attendant of the empty mind.
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Anand Thakur
When men succeed, even their neighbors think them wise.
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Anand Thakur
Words have a longer life than deeds.
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Anand Thakur
The present will not long endure.
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Anand Thakur
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
Success for the striven washes away the effort of striving.
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Anand Thakur
Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.
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Time is the turning over of days, works change for better or worse.
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Anand Thakur
War is sweet for those who haven’t experienced it.
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Anand Thakur

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