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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Anand Thakur
Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth and what flies up, though it be but a spark, will have light.
PINDARLearn what you are and be such.
PINDARGreat deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.
PINDAREvery noble deed dieth, if suppressed in silence.
PINDARSweet is war to those who know it not.
PINDARSuccess abides longer among men when it is planted by the hand of God.
PINDARSkills vary with the man. We must tread a straight path and strive by that which is born in us.
PINDARFor lawless joys a bitter ending waits.
PINDAREven success softens not the heart of the envious.
PINDAREven genius is tied to profit.
PINDAREnvy, the attendant of the empty mind.
PINDARThe 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.
PINDARTo be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied.
PINDARNot every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
PINDARConvention is the ruler of all.
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.
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