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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.

Lucretius

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
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
Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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Anand Thakur
So much wrong could religion induce.
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Religion Wrong
The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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Forever Total
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
All things obey fixed laws.
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Fix Law Obedience One Liner
The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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Forever Sum Total Universe
Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e’en now, e’en now, we die.
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Anand Thakur
If one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape them, and they fill in the gap by putting it down to the gods.
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Earth Escape God People Scare
It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
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Anand Thakur
Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.
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Land Seas Struggle Sweet Water
We in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.
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Anand Thakur
Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
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Anand Thakur
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Action Evil Religion
The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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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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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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