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So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.

Lucretius

O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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Anand Thakur
There can be no centre in infinity.
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Anand Thakur
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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Divine Mistake Nature Power See Universe
Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
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Change Nature State Stay Time World
Fear is the mother of all gods … Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
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Anand Thakur
Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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Anand Thakur
Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
All things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to have started and burst asunder.
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Anand Thakur
How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Feed Sky Stars
Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
The sum of all sums is eternity.
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Anand Thakur
There is no place in nature for extinction.
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Anand Thakur
Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Crime Reason Superstition
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
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Drops Fall Hole Rain Stone
Thus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then ‘tmust have forever its beyond.
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Beyond Forever Limitation Path
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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Anand Thakur

So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.

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