Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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Anand Thakur
Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
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Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
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What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.
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We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
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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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We in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.
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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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Fear is the mother of all gods.
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Truths kindle light for truths.
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