All things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to have started and burst asunder.
LUCRETIUSThere is so much wrong with the world.
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Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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So much wrong could religion induce.
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Those vestiges of natures left behind Which reason cannot quite expel from us Are still so slight that naught prevents a man From living a life even worthy of the gods.
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There is so much wrong with the world.
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How many evils have flowed from religion.
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Nothing comes from nothing.
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Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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All things keep on in everlasting motion, Out of the infinite come the particles, Speeding above, below, in endless dance.
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For there is a VOID in things; a truth which it will be useful for you, in reference to many points, to know; and which will prevent you from wandering in doubt.
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Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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The sum of all sums is eternity.
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