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The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.

Lucretius

Nature allows Destruction nor collapse of aught, until Some outward force may shatter by a blow, Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells, Dissolve it down.
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Allow Collapse Destruction Enter Nature
Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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Anand Thakur
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
Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
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Food Oneself Poison Stand
It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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Anand Thakur
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
The sum of all sums is eternity.
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Anand Thakur
To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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Anand Thakur
Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?
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Anand Thakur
The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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Forever Sum Total Universe
Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?
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Action Crime Often Past Reason Religion Time
We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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Body Decay Growth Mindset Notice
So much wrong could religion induce.
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Religion Wrong
You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.
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Anand Thakur
By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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Death Life Oneself
One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
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Allow Creation Death Except Nature Price

The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.

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