If 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.
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Anand Thakur
If 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.
PINDARA good deed hidden in silence dies.
PINDARIn all things rest is sweet; there is sure feit even in honey, even in Aphrodites lovely flowers.
PINDAREven success softens not the heart of the envious.
PINDAREnvy bestrides praise.
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.
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 the best of all things.
PINDARIf any man thinks to swindle God, he is wrong.
PINDARWhatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.
PINDARThe test of any man lies in action.
PINDARForge thy tongue on an anvil of truth and what flies up, though it be but a spark, will have light.
PINDAROne race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.
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.
PINDARWater is best, but gold shines like fire blazing in the night, supreme of lordly wealth.
PINDARMy God grant me love for that which has splendor, but in this time of my life let me strive for attainable things.
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