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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Anand Thakur
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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Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net whose cords and knots are strong; but even so, enmeshed, entangled, you can still get out unless, poor fool, you stand in your own way.
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The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
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The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
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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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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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Deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.
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Nothing comes from nothing.
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Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
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There is no place in nature for extinction.
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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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From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
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