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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.

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Those vestiges of natures left behind Which reason cannot quite expel from us Are still so slight that naught prevents a man From living a life even worthy of the gods.
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God Man Nature Prevent Quite Reason Worthy
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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Carry Earth Heaven Return Spirit Temple
Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.
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Anand Thakur
Fear holds dominion over mortality Only because, seeing in land and sky So much the cause whereof no wise they know, Men think Divinities are working there.
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Divine Dominant Fear Land Sky Wisdom Work
The sum of all sums is eternity.
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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
The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
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Anand Thakur
For there is a VOID in things; a truth which it will be useful for you, in reference to many points, to know; and which will prevent you from wandering in doubt.
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Anand Thakur
Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches; for never is there any lack of a little.
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Anand Thakur
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
All life is a struggle in the dark.
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Darkness Life One Liner Struggle
The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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Forever Sum Total Universe
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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Admire Fools Hide Love See Sound Truth Verse
Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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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
One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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Food Man Poison

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