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How many evils have flowed from religion.

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Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
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Anand Thakur
We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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Body Decay Mindset Strength
O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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Anand Thakur
There is no place in nature for extinction.
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Anand Thakur
The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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Forever Sum Total Universe
Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
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Anand Thakur
These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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The sum of all sums is eternity.
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Anand Thakur
If the matter of death is reduced to sleep and rest, what can there be so bitter in it, that any one should pine in eternal grief for the decease of a friend?
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Anand Thakur
Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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Anand Thakur
Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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Anand Thakur
How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Feed Sky Stars
Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?
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Anand Thakur
Epicurus whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
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Genius Human Kind Light Rise Stars Sun
True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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Mindset Pity Power True Universe
Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches; for never is there any lack of a little.
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Anand Thakur

How many evils have flowed from religion.

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