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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

We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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Body Decay Growth Mindset Notice
If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.
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Man Prophet See Strength Term Trouble
Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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Anand Thakur
Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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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
Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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Explanation Myself Wind
The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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Anand Thakur
One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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Food Man Poison
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
Nothing comes from nothing.
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Empty One Liner
All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they’re set, and where they’re moved around.
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Body Empty Move Nature Sustain
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
Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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Anand Thakur
Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?
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Action Crime Often Past Reason Religion Time
The sum of all sums is eternity.
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Anand Thakur
Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Heaven Level Victory

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