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From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.

Lucretius

If the matter of death is reduced to sleep and rest, what can there be so bitter in it, that any one should pine in eternal grief for the decease of a friend?
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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
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
And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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Anand Thakur
Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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Creation Existence
Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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Anand Thakur
It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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Greatness Live Mindset Satisfaction Soul Wealth
All things obey fixed laws.
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Fix Law Obedience One Liner
The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.
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Anand Thakur
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
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
Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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Anand Thakur
No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings – the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.
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Cling Degree Flow Fragment
Only religion can lead to such evil.
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Evil Leadership Religion
O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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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

From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.

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