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So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.

Lucretius

Thus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then ‘tmust have forever its beyond.
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Beyond Forever Limitation Path
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 it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.
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Anand Thakur
Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Crime Reason Superstition
The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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Forever Total
Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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Anand Thakur
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Action Evil Religion
Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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Anand Thakur
Epicurus whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
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Genius Human Kind Light Rise Stars Sun
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
All things obey fixed laws.
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Fix Law Obedience One Liner
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
Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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Anand Thakur
Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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Anand Thakur
O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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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

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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