Rajendran Muthiah Poems

241.The great wealth of grace is wealth amid wealth.
Material wealth even the meanest have.
242.Stand in righteous way, probe and be kind.
Though you explore all the systems, mercy is your aid.
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511. A king should employ one who scrutinises good and evil
And has a nature to do good.
512. He who augments revenues, wealth and scours the obstacles
To weed them out to progress should serve a king.
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611.Don’t get dejected presuming something is hard to do.
Strenuous efforts give great strength to do it.
612.The world deserts those who leave chosen work incomplete
Don’t make so half-hearted attempts.
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701.The minister who looks at the king and reads his thoughts,
Being untold, is the gem of the world engulfed by the sea.
702.Regard the mind-reader as equal to god, as he knows
The thoughts of others without any doubt.
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1301.Don’t embrace but sulk.
Let us see how my lover suffers distress.
1302.Pouting awhile is like the salt that seasons the food.
If it prolongs, it likens excess salt messing up the food.
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1041.“Which of the things is more painful than poverty? ”,
If you ask, it is nothing but poverty.
1042.Poverty, the worst sinner spoils the pleasure
Of life in this world and the life after.
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They have got the assent
to kill the writers
who apply reason
in their expression.
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1111.O you blooming *Anicham! You’re tender-hearted.
But my beloved is more tender than you.
1112.O my heart! You baffle at the sight of flowers,
Fancying that her flower-like eyes are seen by many an eye.
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821. The friendship that is bound not in minds but struck up out
will be smitten at the anvil when occasion comes.
822. The friendship of those who feign the ties of kinship
will change like a fickle-hearted woman.
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191. All those around chafe at him who speaks useless words
And incite their anger.
192. It is worse to speak futile words in the presence of all
Than to do ungracious acts against friends.
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