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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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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
Envy bestrides praise.
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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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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
The noblest of the elements is water.
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Anand Thakur
Man’s pleasure is a short time growing And it falls to the ground As quickly.
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Anand Thakur
A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
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Anand Thakur
He is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural inspiration.
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Anand Thakur
Mankind is a dream of a shadow.
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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
With our mortal minds we should seek from the gods that which becomes us.
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Anand Thakur
For lawless joys a bitter ending waits.
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Anand Thakur
Success for the striven washes away the effort of striving.
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Anand Thakur
If any man thinks to swindle God, he is wrong.
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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
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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Endurance Errors Fortune Human Insecure Mindset
Men are the dreams of a shadow.
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Anand Thakur
Envy, the attendant of the empty mind.
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Anand Thakur
The present will not long endure.
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Anand Thakur
To each thing belongs it’s measure. Occasion is best to know.
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Anand Thakur
Words have a longer life than deeds.
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Anand Thakur
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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Anand Thakur
Various are the uses of friends, beyond all else in difficulty, but joy also looks for trust that is clear in the eyes.
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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
Even now I am full of hope, but the end lies in God.
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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

Learn what you are and be such.

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