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No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.

Lucretius

So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Action Evil Religion
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
What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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Anand Thakur
Forbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself vanquished, but, if it is false, gird up your loins to fight.
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Fake Fight Judgement Reason Yourself
The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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Anand Thakur
Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
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Anand Thakur
When bodies spring apart, because the air Somehow condenses, wander they from truth: For then a void is formed, where none before; And, too, a void is filled which was before.
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Body Empty Fill Spring Truth
Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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Anand Thakur
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
All things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to have started and burst asunder.
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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
Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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Explanation Myself Wind
Now come: that thou mayst able be to know That minds and the light souls of all that live Have mortal birth and death, I will go on Verses to build meet for thy rule of life, Sought after long, discovered with sweet toil.
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Anand Thakur
There is so much wrong with the world.
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World Wrong
Those vestiges of natures left behind Which reason cannot quite expel from us Are still so slight that naught prevents a man From living a life even worthy of the gods.
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God Man Nature Prevent Quite Reason Worthy
Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?
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Anand Thakur

No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.

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