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O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.

Lucretius

The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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Forever Sum Total Universe
If one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape them, and they fill in the gap by putting it down to the gods.
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Earth Escape God People Scare
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
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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Anand Thakur
The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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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
By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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Death Life Oneself
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
You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.
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Anand Thakur
A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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Drops Fall Power Stone
For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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Anand Thakur
Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Heaven Level Victory
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
The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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Anand Thakur
Meantime, when once we know from nothing still Nothing can be create, we shall divine More clearly what we seek: those elements From which alone all things created are, And how accomplished by no tool of Gods.
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Anand Thakur
If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.
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Man Prophet See Strength Term Trouble

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