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Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.

Lucretius

No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.
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Action Difficult Task Willing Yourself
Those vestiges of natures left behind Which reason cannot quite expel from us Are still so slight that naught prevents a man From living a life even worthy of the gods.
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God Man Nature Prevent Quite Reason Worthy
Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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Creation Existence
Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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Explanation Myself Wind
The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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Anand Thakur
All things obey fixed laws.
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Fix Law Obedience One Liner
We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
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Anand Thakur
Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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Anand Thakur
A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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Drops Fall Power Stone
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
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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Earth Fix Guard Kind Life Rain Season
It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.
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Anand Thakur
And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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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
Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
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Anand Thakur
Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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Anand Thakur

Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.

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