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

Lucretius

The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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Forever Total
A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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Drops Fall Power Stone
How many evils have flowed from religion.
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Evil Flow Religion
The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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Anand Thakur
Thus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then ‘tmust have forever its beyond.
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Beyond Forever Limitation Path
Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
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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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Anand Thakur
From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
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Amongst Arise Bitter Flower Fountain Spread
These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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Anand Thakur
The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
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Divine Mistake Nature Power See Universe
Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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Anand Thakur
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
You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.
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Anand Thakur
Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
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Food Oneself Poison Stand
There is so much wrong with the world.
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World Wrong
O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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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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