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We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.

Lucretius

All things obey fixed laws.
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Fix Law Obedience One Liner
No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings – the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.
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Cling Degree Flow Fragment
What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Earth Sink
Meantime, when once we know from nothing still Nothing can be create, we shall divine More clearly what we seek: those elements From which alone all things created are, And how accomplished by no tool of Gods.
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Anand Thakur
So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
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Anand Thakur
What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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Anand Thakur
Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
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Anand Thakur
What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?
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Anand Thakur
Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Crime Reason Superstition
It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.
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Anand Thakur
Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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Anand Thakur
The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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Anand Thakur
How many evils have flowed from religion.
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Evil Flow Religion
Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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Live Man Past Scene
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
Some species increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and, like runners, pass on the torch of life.
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Anand Thakur

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.

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