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All things obey fixed laws.

Lucretius

The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.
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Await Built Old Way
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
Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
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Absence Blow Guilty Mindset
One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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Food Man Poison
Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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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
From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
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Anand Thakur
Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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Anand Thakur
Fear is the mother of all gods.
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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
Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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Anand Thakur
So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
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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
Truths kindle light for truths.
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Light One Liner Truth
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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Beyond Forever Limitation Path
It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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Anand Thakur

All things obey fixed laws.

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