ldless art thou? dead thy children? leaving thee to want and doole?
Less thy misery than his is, who lives father to a fool."

"One wise son makes glad his father, forty fools avail him not:
One moon silvers all that darkness which the silly stars did dot."

"Ease and health, obeisant children, wisdom, and a fair-voiced wife--
Thus, great King! are counted up the five felicities of life."

"For the son the sire is honoured; though the bow-cane bendeth true,
Let the strained string crack in using, and what service shall it do?"

"That which will not be, will not be--and what is to be, will be:
Why not drink this easy physic, antidote of misery?"

"Nay! but faint not, idly sighing, 'Destiny is mightiest,'
Sesamum holds oil in plenty, but it yieldeth none unpressed."

"Ah! it is the Coward's babble, 'Fortune taketh, Fortune gave;'
Fortune! rate her like a master, and she serves thee like a slave."

"Two-fold is the life we live in--Fate and Will together run:
Two wheels bear life's chariot onward--Will it move on only one?"

"Look! the clay dries into iron, but the potter moulds the clay:
Destiny to-day is master--Man was master yesterday."

"Worthy ends come not by wishing. Wouldst thou? Up, and win it, then!
While the hungry lion slumbers, not a deer comes to his den."

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"Silly glass, in splendid settings, something of the gold may gain;
And in company of wise ones, fools to wisdom may attain."

"Labours spent on the unworthy, of reward the labourer balk;
Like the parrot, teach the heron twenty words, he will not talk."

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"Ah! a thousand thoughts of sorrow, and a hundred things of dread,
By the fools unheeded, enter day by day the wise man's head."

"Of the day's impending dangers, Sickness, Death, and Misery,
One will be; the wise man, waking, ponders which that one will be."

"Good things come not out of bad things; wisely leave a longed-for ill.
Nectar being mixed with poison serves no purpose but to kill."

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"Give to poor men, son of Kunti--on the wealthy waste not wealth;
Good are simples for the sick man, good for nought to him in health."

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"Be his Scripture-learning wondrous, yet the cheat will be a cheat;