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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.

Pindar

War is sweet for those who haven’t experienced it.
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Anand Thakur
Skills vary with the man. We must tread a straight path and strive by that which is born in us.
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Anand Thakur
In all things rest is sweet; there is sure feit even in honey, even in Aphrodites lovely flowers.
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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
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
Success for the striven washes away the effort of striving.
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Anand Thakur
To each thing belongs it’s measure. Occasion is best to know.
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Anand Thakur
Time is the best preserver of righteous men.
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Anand Thakur
Many a time the thing left silent makes for happiness.
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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
To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied.
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Fate Jealous Noble Pity
One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.
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Anand Thakur
Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.
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Anand Thakur
A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well.
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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
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
Sweet is war to those who know it not.
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Anand Thakur
Often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
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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
Even genius is tied to profit.
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Anand Thakur
Even now I am full of hope, but the end lies in God.
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Anand Thakur
Envy bestrides praise.
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Anand Thakur
Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.
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Anand Thakur
I will be small in small things, great among great.
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Anand Thakur
Convention is the ruler of all.
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Anand Thakur

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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