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Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.

Lucretius

Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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Anand Thakur
Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.
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Fall Forever Myself See Slow System
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
Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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Creation Existence
We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
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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
O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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Anand Thakur
Rest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.
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Anand Thakur
Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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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
We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
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Anand Thakur
From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
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Anand Thakur
It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
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Anand Thakur
Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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Anand Thakur
Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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Anand Thakur
The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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Anand Thakur

Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.

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