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Thus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then ‘tmust have forever its beyond.

Lucretius

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
There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
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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
So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.
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Anand Thakur
The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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Anand Thakur
So much wrong could religion induce.
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Religion Wrong
And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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Anand Thakur
It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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Anand Thakur
Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Crime Reason Superstition
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
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
The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.
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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
If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can’t lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.
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Existence God heavy Himself Stone
Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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Creation Existence
Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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Anand Thakur

Thus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then ‘tmust have forever its beyond.

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Thus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then ‘tmust have forever its beyond.

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