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

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To our own sorrows serious heed we give, But for another?s we soon cease to grieve.
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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
Learn what you are and be such.
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Anand Thakur
Law, the king of all mortals and immortals.
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Anand Thakur
Even success softens not the heart of the envious.
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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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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
Natural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of teaching.
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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
The race of gods and men is one, and from one mother we both draw our breath. Yet all the difference in our power holds us apart, so that man is nothing, but the brazen floor of heaven is eternally unshakable.
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Anand Thakur
A good deed hidden in silence dies.
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Anand Thakur
Of the good things given between man and man, I say that a neighbor, true and loving in heart, to neighbor is a joy beyond all things else.
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Anand Thakur
Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.
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Anand Thakur
Every noble deed dieth, if suppressed in silence.
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Noble Silence
Time is the turning over of days, works change for better or worse.
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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
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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Anand Thakur
To each thing belongs it’s measure. Occasion is best to know.
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Anand Thakur
Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.
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Anand Thakur
The noblest of the elements is water.
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Anand Thakur
Often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
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Anand Thakur
A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well.
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Anand Thakur
Wrapt up in error is the human mind, And human bliss is ever insecure; Know we what fortune yet remains behind? Know we how long the present shall endure?
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Endurance Errors Fortune Human Insecure Mindset
Men are the dreams of a shadow.
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Anand Thakur
To bear lightly the neck’s yoke brings strength; but kicking against the goads is the way of failure.
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Anand Thakur
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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Anand Thakur

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

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