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These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.

Lucretius

You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.
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Anand Thakur
Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
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Allow Born Death Nature Repair
All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they’re set, and where they’re moved around.
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Body Empty Move Nature Sustain
Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
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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
We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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Body Decay Growth Mindset Notice
How many evils have flowed from religion.
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Evil Flow Religion
How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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Anand Thakur
The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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Forever Total
Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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Anand Thakur
Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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Anand Thakur
Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
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Absence Blow Guilty Mindset
In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
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Anand Thakur
To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.
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Anand Thakur
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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Drive Height Man Religion
We in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.
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Anand Thakur

These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.

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