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To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.

Lucretius

Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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Drive Height Man Religion
The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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Anand Thakur
What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?
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Anand Thakur
What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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Anand Thakur
Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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Anand Thakur
We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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Body Decay Mindset Strength
What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Earth Sink
What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.
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Carry Earth Heaven Return Spirit Temple
Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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Anand Thakur
Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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Anand Thakur
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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Anand Thakur
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
Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?
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Action Crime Often Past Reason Religion Time
Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.
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Anand Thakur
The sum of all sums is eternity.
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Anand Thakur
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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Anand Thakur

To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.

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