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.
PINDAREven genius is tied to profit.
PINDAREnvy bestrides praise.
PINDARNatural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of teaching.
PINDARSkills vary with the man. We must tread a straight path and strive by that which is born in us.
PINDARHe is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural inspiration.
PINDARTo each thing belongs it’s measure. Occasion is best to know.
PINDARThe 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.
PINDARNot every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
PINDARTo be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied.
PINDAREnvy, the attendant of the empty mind.
PINDARThe present will not long endure.
PINDAROf 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.
PINDARMany a time the thing left silent makes for happiness.
PINDARIf any man thinks to swindle God, he is wrong.
PINDARI will be small in small things, great among great.
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