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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.

Lucretius

How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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Blind Man Mindset Understand
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
All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they’re set, and where they’re moved around.
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Body Empty Move Nature Sustain
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
O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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Anand Thakur
Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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Body Germ
We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
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Anand Thakur
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
We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
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Anand Thakur
There is no place in nature for extinction.
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Anand Thakur
Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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Anand Thakur
We in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.
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Anand Thakur
One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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Food Man Poison
The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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Anand Thakur
It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.
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Anand Thakur
The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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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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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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