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

Lucretius

A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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Drops Fall Power Stone
Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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Live Man Past Scene
Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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Anand Thakur
How many evils have flowed from religion.
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Evil Flow Religion
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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Await Built Old Way
True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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Mindset Pity Power True Universe
Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
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Anand Thakur
For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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Anand Thakur
Thus it comes That earth, without her seasons of fixed rains, Could bear no produce such as makes us glad, And whatsoever lives, if shut from food, Prolongs its kind and guards its life no more.
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Earth Fix Guard Kind Life Rain Season
The sum of all sums is eternity.
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Anand Thakur
Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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Anand Thakur
These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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Anand Thakur
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
We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
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Anand Thakur
To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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Anand Thakur
How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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Blind Man Mindset Understand

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