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If you do anything well, gratitude is lighter than a feather; if you give offense in anything, people’s wrath is as heavy as lead.
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Anand Thakur
The stronger always succeeds.
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Anand Thakur
The day, water, sun, moon, night – I do not have to purchase these things with money.
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Anand Thakur
The Bell never rings of itself; unless some one handles or moves it it is dumb.
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Dumb Handle Move Ring
I had much rather be adorned by beauty of character than by jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, character comes from within.
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Character Fortune Jewel Myself
Worthy things happen to the worthy.
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Deserve Worth
This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.
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Anand Thakur
Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather: injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead.
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Anand Thakur
Men understand the worth of blessings only when they have lost them.
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Blessing Lose Man Understand Worth Yourself
Let deeds match words.
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Action One Liner Word
I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.
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Compliment Criticism Insincere Preference
To waste one’s breath; to pump into a sieve.
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Breathe Sieve Wasted Time
You will not be a chip the richer.
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Anand Thakur
A word to the wise is sufficient
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Sufficient Wisdom Word
Your wealth is where your friends are.
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Anand Thakur
It is wisdom to think upon anything before we execute it.
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Anand Thakur
He who dies for virtue does not perish.
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Anand Thakur
For nobody is curious, who isn’t malevolent.
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Anand Thakur
It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.
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Anand Thakur
I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry.
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Anand Thakur
No man will be respected by others who is despised by his own relatives.
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Man Relative Respect
Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.
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Anand Thakur
And so it happens oft in many instances; more good is done without our knowledge than by us intended.
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Anand Thakur
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
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Anand Thakur
Badly gotten, badly spent.
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Bad Spent
He who is most on his guard is often himself taken in.
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Anand Thakur
It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.
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Business Master Yourself

Let not your expenditure exceed your income.

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