It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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Anand Thakur
It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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Now come: that thou mayst able be to know That minds and the light souls of all that live Have mortal birth and death, I will go on Verses to build meet for thy rule of life, Sought after long, discovered with sweet toil.
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The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.
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Only religion can lead to such evil.
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Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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Fear holds dominion over mortality Only because, seeing in land and sky So much the cause whereof no wise they know, Men think Divinities are working there.
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Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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So much wrong could religion induce.
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All things obey fixed laws.
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It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.
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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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We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
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How many evils have flowed from religion.
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Rest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.
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Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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