All things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to have started and burst asunder.
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Anand Thakur
All things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to have started and burst asunder.
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Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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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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O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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How many evils have flowed from religion.
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We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
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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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By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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Nothing comes from nothing.
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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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The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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Thus it comes That earth, without her seasons of fixed rains, Could bear no produce such as makes us glad, And whatsoever lives, if shut from food, Prolongs its kind and guards its life no more.
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All life is a struggle in the dark.
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