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For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.

Lucretius

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
How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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Anand Thakur
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 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
From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
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Anand Thakur
Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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Anand Thakur
All things keep on in everlasting motion, Out of the infinite come the particles, Speeding above, below, in endless dance.
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Anand Thakur
The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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Anand Thakur
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
From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
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Amongst Arise Bitter Flower Fountain Spread
Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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Anand Thakur
The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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Anand Thakur
What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Earth Sink
Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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Anand Thakur
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Action Evil Religion
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

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