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What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.

Lucretius

No fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvelous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time.
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Believe Diminish Equality Simplicity Time Wonder
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
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Action Evil Religion
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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Anand Thakur
Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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Anand Thakur
By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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Death Life Oneself
Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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Live Man Past Scene
Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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Anand Thakur
Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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Anand Thakur
Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?
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Anand Thakur
To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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Anand Thakur
Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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Anand Thakur
Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?
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Action Crime Often Past Reason Religion Time
We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
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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
Now come: that thou mayst able be to know That minds and the light souls of all that live Have mortal birth and death, I will go on Verses to build meet for thy rule of life, Sought after long, discovered with sweet toil.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur

What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.

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