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Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.

Lucretius

Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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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 is so much wrong with the world.
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World Wrong
The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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Anand Thakur
Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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Anand Thakur
Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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Body Germ
Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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Anand Thakur
The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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Anand Thakur
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
Fear holds dominion over mortality Only because, seeing in land and sky So much the cause whereof no wise they know, Men think Divinities are working there.
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Divine Dominant Fear Land Sky Wisdom Work
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
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
Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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Anand Thakur
No fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvelous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time.
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Believe Diminish Equality Simplicity Time Wonder
How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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Blind Man Mindset Understand
Fear is the mother of all gods.
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Anand Thakur

Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.

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