Water is best, but gold shines like fire blazing in the night, supreme of lordly wealth.
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Anand Thakur
Water is best, but gold shines like fire blazing in the night, supreme of lordly wealth.
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My God grant me love for that which has splendor, but in this time of my life let me strive for attainable things.
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There are many roads to happiness, if the gods assent.
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Rich man and poor move side by side toward the limit of death.
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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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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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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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Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.
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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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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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Success for the striven washes away the effort of striving.
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Law, the king of all mortals and immortals.
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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.
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To each thing belongs it’s measure. Occasion is best to know.
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A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well.
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Time is the turning over of days, works change for better or worse.
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