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Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

Lucretius

For out of doubt In these affairs ’tis each man’s will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused.
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Anand Thakur
One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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Food Man Poison
Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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Anand Thakur
Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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Anand Thakur
No fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvelous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time.
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Believe Diminish Equality Simplicity Time Wonder
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
We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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Body Decay Mindset Strength
When bodies spring apart, because the air Somehow condenses, wander they from truth: For then a void is formed, where none before; And, too, a void is filled which was before.
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Body Empty Fill Spring Truth
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
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
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Drops Fall Hole Rain Stone
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
Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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Anand Thakur
Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?
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Anand Thakur
Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Crime Reason Superstition
Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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Anand Thakur
The sum of all sums is eternity.
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Anand Thakur

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

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