Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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Anand Thakur
Continual dropping wears away a stone.
LUCRETIUSAir, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
LUCRETIUSDeath is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
LUCRETIUSGlobed 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.
LUCRETIUSWe in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.
LUCRETIUSWe, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
LUCRETIUSThus 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.
LUCRETIUSNothing comes from nothing.
LUCRETIUSFrom the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
LUCRETIUSMen conceal the past scenes of their lives.
LUCRETIUSO goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
LUCRETIUSOnly religion can lead to such evil.
LUCRETIUSHow is it that the sky feeds the stars?
LUCRETIUSThere is so much wrong with the world.
LUCRETIUSThe 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.
LUCRETIUSYet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.
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