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ஆயிரம் பொன்மொழிகள்! (181-200) 

ச. நாகராஜன் 

பொன்மொழிகள் தொடர்கின்றன…

181. Silence

The temple of our purest thoughts is silence. – S.J. Hale

தூயவுயர் எண்ணங்கள் தோய்ந்திருக்கும் பொற்கோயில்

ஆய மவுனம் அறி                                                                 

                                    – உலக உள்ளங்கள் (161)

                                   ஜெகவீரபாண்டியனார்

Silence

Silence alone is great, all the rest is weakness.    – Alfred De Vigny

பேசா மவுனமே பேருயர்வு மற்றவெல்லாம்

ஈசல் எளிமை இளிவு.                                                    –    

                                   உலக உள்ளங்கள்

                                   ஜெகவீரபாண்டியனார்

Word – Silence

The unspoken word never does harm.             – Kossoth

பேசாத வார்த்தை பிழையேதும் செய்யாதே

பேசல் ஒழிக பிறிது                – உலக உள்ளங்கள் (170)

                                    ஜெகவீரபாண்டியனார்

Thinking

My trade is to say what I think.                    – Voltaire

எண்ணுவதைச் சொல்லுவதே என்வேலை எவ்வழியும்

நண்ணுவதை நோக்கி நயந்து       – உலக உள்ளங்கள் (66)    

                                    ஜெகவீரபாண்டியனார்

Today

Be wise today; it is madness to defer.          – Young

இன்றே அறிவா யினிநில் இல்லையேல்

என்றுமே பித்தன் இழிவு            உலக உள்ளங்கள் )     

                                    ஜெகவீரபாண்டியனார்

Thought

Thought means life, since those who do not think do not live in any high or real sense. – A.B.Alcott

ஓர்ந்து நினையார் உயர்வாழ் வடையாரே

ஓர்ந்தவுயர் எண்ணம் உயிர்           உலக உள்ளங்கள் (60)    

                                    ஜெகவீரபாண்டியனார்

Mouth – Ear

That which passes out of one mouth passes a hundred ears.           – Ernest Bramah

Ching Chow – Mouth – Ear – Listen – Talk

We have two ears and one mouth that we may listen the more and talk the less.

Mouth

No pear falls into a shut mouth.                – Italian saying

Truth

When truth is revealed, let custom give place; let no man prefer custom before reason and truth.            

                                                                           – St. Augustine

191. Books

Books are the legacies that genius leaves to mankind, to be delivered down from generation to generation, as presents, to those that are yet unborn.              – Addison

Success

Why shouldn’t you get to the top of the tree? It is still there.    – L.G. Moberly

Friend

If thy friend deceive thee once, shame on him.

If thy friend deceive thee twice, shame on thee.                 – Quaker Motto

Mirth – Word – Sword

Let your mirth be ever void of all scurrility and biting words; for a wound given by a word is harder to be cured than that given by a sword.                                              – Sir Henry Sidney

Man – Peace

Calm soul of all things! Make it mine

   To feel, amid the city’s jar,

That there abides a peace of thine

   Man did not make, and cannot mar.            – Matthew Arnold

Ching Chow – Sorrow – Thing Lost

Take no sorrow of the thing lost which may not be recovered.

Ching Chow – Love – Drink

Two things a man cannot hide – That he is drunk and that he is in love.

Purr

Purr when you are pleased.  – Mrs Gatty

Mankind

What forests of laurel we bring, and the tears of mankind, to those who stood firm against the opinion of their contemporaries.           – Emerson

200. Borrower – Leader

The borrower is the servant to the lender.   – Old Testament            

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