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The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.

Lucretius

Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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Drive Height Man Religion
Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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Anand Thakur
Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Earth Sink
Thus the sum Forever is replenished, and we live As mortals by eternal give and take. The nations wax, the nations wane away; In a brief space the generations pass, And like to runners hand the lamp of life One unto other.
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Anand Thakur
There is no place in nature for extinction.
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Anand Thakur
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
Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air’s embrace.
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Anand Thakur
It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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Anand Thakur
Nothing comes from nothing.
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Empty One Liner
So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.
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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
From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
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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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Anand Thakur

The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.

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