Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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Anand Thakur
Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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All life is a struggle in the dark.
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From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
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Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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How many evils have flowed from religion.
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What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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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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Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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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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Truths kindle light for truths.
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In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
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Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.
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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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The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
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Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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