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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Anand Thakur
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?
PINDARThe forehead of every work must shine from afar.
PINDARFor lawless joys a bitter ending waits.
PINDAREnvy, the attendant of the empty mind.
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.
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.
PINDARRich man and poor move side by side toward the limit of death.
PINDARTime is the turning over of days, works change for better or worse.
PINDARThe days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.
PINDARSkills vary with the man. We must tread a straight path and strive by that which is born in us.
PINDARWar is sweet for those who haven’t experienced it.
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.
PINDARWater is best, but gold shines like fire blazing in the night, supreme of lordly wealth.
PINDARWe are things of a day. What are we? What are we not? The shadow of a dream is man, no more.
PINDARI will not steep my speech in lies; the test of any man lies in action.
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