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We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.

Lucretius

Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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Atheist Creation Earth Fear God
The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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Anand Thakur
Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air’s embrace.
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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
Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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Live Man Past Scene
The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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Anand Thakur
What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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Anand Thakur
These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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Anand Thakur
Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?
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Anand Thakur
How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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Anand Thakur
The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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Anand Thakur
There can be no centre in infinity.
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Anand Thakur
Now come: that thou mayst able be to know That minds and the light souls of all that live Have mortal birth and death, I will go on Verses to build meet for thy rule of life, Sought after long, discovered with sweet toil.
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Anand Thakur
The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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Anand Thakur
The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
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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

We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.

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