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Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.

Lucretius

Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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Atheist Creation Earth Fear God
Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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Anand Thakur
For there is a VOID in things; a truth which it will be useful for you, in reference to many points, to know; and which will prevent you from wandering in doubt.
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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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Action Difficult Task Willing Yourself
What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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Anand Thakur
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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Anand Thakur
Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e’en now, e’en now, we die.
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Anand Thakur
It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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Anand Thakur
Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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Anand Thakur
Under what law each thing was created, and how necessary it is for it to continue under this, and how it cannot annul the strong rules that govern its lifetime.
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Creation Law Life Necessary Rule Strong Time
How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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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
All life is a struggle in the dark.
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Darkness Life One Liner Struggle
We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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Body Decay Growth Mindset Notice
Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
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Food Oneself Poison Stand
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

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