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Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.

Lucretius

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
Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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Anand Thakur
Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?
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Anand Thakur
The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.
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Anand Thakur
Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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Anand Thakur
Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches; for never is there any lack of a little.
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Anand Thakur
It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
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Anand Thakur
Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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Anand Thakur
These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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Anand Thakur
Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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Anand Thakur
Fear is the mother of all gods … Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
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Anand Thakur
Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Crime Reason Superstition
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Action Evil Religion
How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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Blind Man Mindset Understand
I own with reason: for, if men but knew Some fixed end to ills, they would be strong By some device unconquered to withstand Religions and the menacings of seers.
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Conquer Device Known Man Reason Religion
All things obey fixed laws.
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Fix Law Obedience One Liner

Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.

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