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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

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

Conquer Device Known Man Reason Religion
Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.
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Fall Forever Myself See Slow System
It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.
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Pleasant Struggle Wind
Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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Anand Thakur
Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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Creation Existence
Meantime, when once we know from nothing still Nothing can be create, we shall divine More clearly what we seek: those elements From which alone all things created are, And how accomplished by no tool of Gods.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
There is no place in nature for extinction.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Those vestiges of natures left behind Which reason cannot quite expel from us Are still so slight that naught prevents a man From living a life even worthy of the gods.
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God Man Nature Prevent Quite Reason Worthy
Only religion can lead to such evil.
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Evil Leadership Religion
For out of doubt In these affairs ’tis each man’s will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
No fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvelous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time.
LUCRETIUS

Believe Diminish Equality Simplicity Time Wonder
Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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Anand Thakur
Fear is the mother of all gods.
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Anand Thakur
To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.
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Anand Thakur
All things obey fixed laws.
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Fix Law Obedience One Liner

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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