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.
PINDARWater is the best of all things.
PINDAREvery noble deed dieth, if suppressed in silence.
PINDARSuccess for the striven washes away the effort of striving.
PINDARConvention is the ruler of all.
PINDARMy God grant me love for that which has splendor, but in this time of my life let me strive for attainable things.
PINDARWords have a longer life than deeds.
PINDARTo our own sorrows serious heed we give, But for another?s we soon cease to grieve.
PINDARVarious are the uses of friends, beyond all else in difficulty, but joy also looks for trust that is clear in the eyes.
PINDARThe noblest of the elements is water.
PINDARCreatures 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.
PINDARFinding that the middle condition of life is by far the happiest, I look with little favor upon that of princes.
PINDAREven genius is tied to profit.
PINDARWe are things of a day. What are we? What are we not? The shadow of a dream is man, no more.
PINDARWhen men succeed, even their neighbors think them wise.
PINDARWhatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.
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