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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.

Lucretius

For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.
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Admire Fools Hide Love See Sound Truth Verse
Fear is the mother of all gods.
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Anand Thakur
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
All life is a struggle in the dark.
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Darkness Life One Liner Struggle
It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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Anand Thakur
No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings – the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.
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Cling Degree Flow Fragment
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 obey fixed laws.
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Fix Law Obedience One Liner
Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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Anand Thakur
Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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Anand Thakur
Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
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Absence Blow Guilty Mindset
Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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Anand Thakur
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
We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
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Anand Thakur
You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.
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Anand Thakur
The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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Anand Thakur

And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.

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