What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Anand Thakur
What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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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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Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.
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The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
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What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.
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Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e’en now, e’en now, we die.
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The sum of all sums is eternity.
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Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
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From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
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Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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