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Man’s pleasure is a short time growing And it falls to the ground As quickly.

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A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well.
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Anand Thakur
Convention is the ruler of all.
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Anand Thakur
Success for the striven washes away the effort of striving.
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Anand Thakur
The forehead of every work must shine from afar.
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Anand Thakur
With our mortal minds we should seek from the gods that which becomes us.
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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
To our own sorrows serious heed we give, But for another?s we soon cease to grieve.
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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
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
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
A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
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Anand Thakur
The test of any man lies in action.
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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
Rich man and poor move side by side toward the limit of death.
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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
I will be small in small things, great among great.
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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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