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Thirukkural 38

Chapter 4: அறன் வலியுறுத்தல் (Assertion of the Strength of Virtue) · Virtue

Kural 38

வீழ்நாள் படாஅமை நன்றாற்றின் அஃதொருவன்
வாழ்நாள் வழியடைக்கும் கல்.

Veezhnaal Pataaamai Nandraatrin Aqdhoruvan
Vaazhnaal Vazhiyataikkum Kal

If no day passing idly, good to do each day you toil, A stone it will be to block the way of future days of moil

Meaning

If one allows no day to pass without some good being done, his conduct will be a stone to block up the passage to other births.

Plain English meaning from the 19th-century prose translation by W. H. Drew and John Lazarus. The verse above is G. U. Pope's translation (1886).

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