Natural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of teaching.
PINDAREvery noble deed dieth, if suppressed in silence.
More Pindar Quotes
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The forehead of every work must shine from afar.
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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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Time is the best preserver of righteous men.
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Sweet is war to those who know it not.
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Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth and what flies up, though it be but a spark, will have light.
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Men are the dreams of a shadow.
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Even now I am full of hope, but the end lies in God.
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Point thy tongue on the anvil of truth.
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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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To our own sorrows serious heed we give, But for another?s we soon cease to grieve.
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Skills vary with the man. We must tread a straight path and strive by that which is born in us.
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Mankind is a dream of a shadow.
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One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.
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I will not steep my speech in lies; the test of any man lies in action.
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My 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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