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One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.
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Anand Thakur
Learn what you are and be such.
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Anand Thakur
Convention is the ruler of all.
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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
To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied.
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Fate Jealous Noble Pity
Many a time the thing left silent makes for happiness.
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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
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
Words have a longer life than deeds.
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Anand Thakur
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
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
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
Mankind is a dream of a shadow.
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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
Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.
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Anand Thakur

For lawless joys a bitter ending waits.

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