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

Lucretius

Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?
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Anand Thakur
Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
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Anand Thakur
When bodies spring apart, because the air Somehow condenses, wander they from truth: For then a void is formed, where none before; And, too, a void is filled which was before.
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Body Empty Fill Spring Truth
How many evils have flowed from religion.
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Evil Flow Religion
All life is a struggle in the dark.
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Darkness Life One Liner Struggle
How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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Anand Thakur
Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Crime Reason Superstition
Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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Live Man Past Scene
Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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Atheist Creation Earth Fear God
From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
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Anand Thakur
Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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Anand Thakur
There can be no centre in infinity.
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Anand Thakur
There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
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Anand Thakur
Thus it comes That earth, without her seasons of fixed rains, Could bear no produce such as makes us glad, And whatsoever lives, if shut from food, Prolongs its kind and guards its life no more.
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Earth Fix Guard Kind Life Rain Season
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
It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.
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Greatness Pleasant Run Sea View

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

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