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.
PINDARTo our own sorrows serious heed we give, But for another?s we soon cease to grieve.
PINDARIf 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.
PINDAROf the good things given between man and man, I say that a neighbor, true and loving in heart, to neighbor is a joy beyond all things else.
PINDARWater is the best of all things.
PINDAREnvy bestrides praise.
PINDAROften silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
PINDARA thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well.
PINDAREnvy, the attendant of the empty mind.
PINDAREvery noble deed dieth, if suppressed in silence.
PINDARIt 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.
PINDARO my soul, do not aspire to immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible.
PINDARThere are many roads to happiness, if the gods assent.
PINDARIf any man thinks to swindle God, he is wrong.
PINDARTo be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied.
PINDARLaw, the king of all mortals and immortals.
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