Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.
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Anand Thakur
Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.
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How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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Epicurus whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
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Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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Nothing comes from nothing.
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Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
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Only religion can lead to such evil.
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Forbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself vanquished, but, if it is false, gird up your loins to fight.
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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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Some species increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and, like runners, pass on the torch of life.
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The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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When bodies spring apart, because the air Somehow condenses, wander they from truth: For then a void is formed, where none before; And, too, a void is filled which was before.
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Truths kindle light for truths.
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Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?
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