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

Lucretius

What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Earth Sink
How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Feed Sky Stars
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
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
A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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Drops Fall Power Stone
Truths kindle light for truths.
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Light One Liner Truth
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
O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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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
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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Anand Thakur
Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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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
It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net whose cords and knots are strong; but even so, enmeshed, entangled, you can still get out unless, poor fool, you stand in your own way.
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Avoid Easy Fools Knot Love Stand Way Yourself
The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
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Divine Mistake Nature Power See Universe
Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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Creation Existence
It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.
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Anand Thakur

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

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