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

Lucretius

To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.
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Anand Thakur
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
To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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Anand Thakur
The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.
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Await Built Old Way
Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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Creation Existence
Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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Anand Thakur
Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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Anand Thakur
Thus the sum Forever is replenished, and we live As mortals by eternal give and take. The nations wax, the nations wane away; In a brief space the generations pass, And like to runners hand the lamp of life One unto other.
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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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Anand Thakur
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
It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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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
Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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Atheist Creation Earth Fear God
Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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Anand Thakur
Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e’en now, e’en now, we die.
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Anand Thakur
Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Crime Reason Superstition

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