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We are things of a day. What are we? What are we not? The shadow of a dream is man, no more.

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Many a time the thing left silent makes for happiness.
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Anand Thakur
The forehead of every work must shine from afar.
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Anand Thakur
To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied.
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Fate Jealous Noble Pity
Mankind is a dream of a shadow.
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Anand Thakur
Skills vary with the man. We must tread a straight path and strive by that which is born in us.
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Anand Thakur
Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.
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Anand Thakur
Success abides longer among men when it is planted by the hand of God.
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Anand Thakur
Even genius is tied to profit.
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Anand Thakur
It 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.
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Anand Thakur
I will not steep my speech in lies; the test of any man lies in action.
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Action Lying Man Myself Speech
Time is the best preserver of righteous men.
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Anand Thakur
In all things rest is sweet; there is sure feit even in honey, even in Aphrodites lovely flowers.
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Anand Thakur
Law, the king of all mortals and immortals.
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Anand Thakur
A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
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Anand Thakur
Creatures 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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Anand Thakur
I will be small in small things, great among great.
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Anand Thakur
Men are the dreams of a shadow.
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Anand Thakur
A good deed hidden in silence dies.
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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?
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Endurance Errors Fortune Human Insecure Mindset
To our own sorrows serious heed we give, But for another?s we soon cease to grieve.
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Anand Thakur
Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.
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Anand Thakur
Point thy tongue on the anvil of truth.
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Anand Thakur
Often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
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Anand Thakur
To bear lightly the neck’s yoke brings strength; but kicking against the goads is the way of failure.
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Anand Thakur
Envy bestrides praise.
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Anand Thakur
One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.
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Anand Thakur
Water is the best of all things.
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Anand Thakur

We are things of a day. What are we? What are we not? The shadow of a dream is man, no more.

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