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How is it that the sky feeds the stars?

Lucretius

I own with reason: for, if men but knew Some fixed end to ills, they would be strong By some device unconquered to withstand Religions and the menacings of seers.
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Conquer Device Known Man Reason Religion
True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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Mindset Pity Power True Universe
These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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Anand Thakur
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
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
Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Crime Reason Superstition
Fear is the mother of all gods.
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Anand Thakur
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
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Drops Fall Hole Rain Stone
The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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Anand Thakur
So much wrong could religion induce.
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Religion Wrong
From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
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Anand Thakur
Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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Anand Thakur
Fear is the mother of all gods … Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
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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
Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
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Food Oneself Poison Stand
Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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Anand Thakur

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