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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Anand Thakur
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.
PINDARRich man and poor move side by side toward the limit of death.
PINDARThe forehead of every work must shine from afar.
PINDARCreatures 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.
PINDAREvery noble deed dieth, if suppressed in silence.
PINDARHe is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural inspiration.
PINDARNot every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
PINDARPoint thy tongue on the anvil of truth.
PINDARLaw, the king of all mortals and immortals.
PINDARMan’s pleasure is a short time growing And it falls to the ground As quickly.
PINDARTo be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied.
PINDAREven genius is tied to profit.
PINDARThere 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.
PINDARWhen men succeed, even their neighbors think them wise.
PINDARWrapt 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?
PINDARSuccess abides longer among men when it is planted by the hand of God.
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