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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.

Lucretius

Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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Creation Existence
The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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Forever Sum Total Universe
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
And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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Anand Thakur
Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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Anand Thakur
One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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Food Man Poison
Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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Explanation Myself Wind
These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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Anand Thakur
The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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Anand Thakur
How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Feed Sky Stars
Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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Anand Thakur
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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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
How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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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
It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.
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Greatness Pleasant Run Sea View

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