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
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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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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Point thy tongue on the anvil of truth.
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Success for the striven washes away the effort of striving.
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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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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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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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Envy bestrides praise.
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When men succeed, even their neighbors think them wise.
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Even success softens not the heart of the envious.
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The noblest of the elements is water.
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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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I will not steep my speech in lies; the test of any man lies in action.
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I will be small in small things, great among great.
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Mankind is a dream of a shadow.
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Time is the best preserver of righteous men.
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