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Constant dripping hollows out a stone.

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Thus the sum Forever is replenished, and we live As mortals by eternal give and take. The nations wax, the nations wane away; In a brief space the generations pass, And like to runners hand the lamp of life One unto other.
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Anand Thakur
Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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Anand Thakur
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
There is no place in nature for extinction.
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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
The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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Anand Thakur
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
How many evils have flowed from religion.
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Evil Flow Religion
The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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Anand Thakur
Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Crime Reason Superstition
Nothing comes from nothing.
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Empty One Liner
Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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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
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
Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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Anand Thakur

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.

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