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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.

Pindar

We are things of a day. What are we? What are we not? The shadow of a dream is man, no more.
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Day Dreams Man Shadow
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
The forehead of every work must shine from afar.
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Natural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of teaching.
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Rich man and poor move side by side toward the limit of death.
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Anand Thakur
Law, the king of all mortals and immortals.
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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
One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.
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Anand Thakur
The test of any man lies in action.
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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
In all things rest is sweet; there is sure feit even in honey, even in Aphrodites lovely flowers.
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Anand Thakur
Even genius is tied to profit.
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Anand Thakur
Many a time the thing left silent makes for happiness.
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Anand Thakur
A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well.
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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
Point thy tongue on the anvil of truth.
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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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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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