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Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.

Lucretius

Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
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Anand Thakur
Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Heaven Level Victory
Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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Creation Existence
No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.
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Action Difficult Task Willing Yourself
What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Earth Sink
Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
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Absence Blow Guilty Mindset
Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.
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Fall Forever Myself See Slow System
It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.
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Greatness Pleasant Run Sea View
Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
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Anand Thakur
A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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Drops Fall Power Stone
True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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Mindset Pity Power True Universe
O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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Anand Thakur
The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.
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Await Built Old Way
Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.
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Anand Thakur
Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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Anand Thakur
Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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Atheist Creation Earth Fear God

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