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To our own sorrows serious heed we give, But for another?s we soon cease to grieve.

Pindar

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
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Anand Thakur
Envy bestrides praise.
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Anand Thakur
A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well.
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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
If any man thinks to swindle God, he is wrong.
PINDAR

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
Time is the turning over of days, works change for better or worse.
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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
When men succeed, even their neighbors think them wise.
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Anand Thakur
Learn what you are and be such.
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Anand Thakur
Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.
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Affection Gift Greatness Heaven Reality Small
Envy, the attendant of the empty mind.
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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
Humble in a humble state and great in greatness, I will work out the divinity that is busy within my mind.
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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
With our mortal minds we should seek from the gods that which becomes us.
PINDAR

Anand Thakur

To our own sorrows serious heed we give, But for another?s we soon cease to grieve.

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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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