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Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.

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There is no place in nature for extinction.
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Anand Thakur
It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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Anand Thakur
We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
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Anand Thakur
Fear is the mother of all gods … Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
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Anand Thakur
The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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Anand Thakur
Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
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Absence Blow Guilty Mindset
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
If the matter of death is reduced to sleep and rest, what can there be so bitter in it, that any one should pine in eternal grief for the decease of a friend?
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Anand Thakur
For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.
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Admire Fools Hide Love See Sound Truth Verse
Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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Anand Thakur
These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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Anand Thakur
For there is a VOID in things; a truth which it will be useful for you, in reference to many points, to know; and which will prevent you from wandering in doubt.
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Anand Thakur
Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.
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Land Seas Struggle Sweet Water
From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
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Anand Thakur
Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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Anand Thakur
No fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvelous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time.
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Believe Diminish Equality Simplicity Time Wonder
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
Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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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
Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.
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Anand Thakur
I own with reason: for, if men but knew Some fixed end to ills, they would be strong By some device unconquered to withstand Religions and the menacings of seers.
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Conquer Device Known Man Reason Religion
Meantime, when once we know from nothing still Nothing can be create, we shall divine More clearly what we seek: those elements From which alone all things created are, And how accomplished by no tool of Gods.
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Anand Thakur
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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Body Empty Fill Spring Truth
The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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Forever Total
The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
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Anand Thakur
A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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Drops Fall Power Stone
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

Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.

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