Even success softens not the heart of the envious.
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Anand Thakur
Even success softens not the heart of the envious.
PINDARMan’s pleasure is a short time growing And it falls to the ground As quickly.
PINDARWith our mortal minds we should seek from the gods that which becomes us.
PINDARWhatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.
PINDARSkills vary with the man. We must tread a straight path and strive by that which is born in us.
PINDARConvention is the ruler of all.
PINDARSweet is war to those who know it not.
PINDARNatural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of teaching.
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.
PINDARTime is the best preserver of righteous men.
PINDAREven now I am full of hope, but the end lies in God.
PINDARTime is the turning over of days, works change for better or worse.
PINDARA good deed hidden in silence dies.
PINDARMankind is a dream of a shadow.
PINDARWords have a longer life than deeds.
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.
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