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

Lucretius

The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.
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Anand Thakur
No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.
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Action Difficult Task Willing Yourself
The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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Anand Thakur
It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.
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Pleasant Struggle Wind
The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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Forever Sum Total Universe
Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
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Food Oneself Poison Stand
The sum of all sums is eternity.
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Anand Thakur
The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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Anand Thakur
The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
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Divine Mistake Nature Power See Universe
Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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Anand Thakur
Deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.
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Anand Thakur
The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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Anand Thakur
Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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Anand Thakur
Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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Anand Thakur
It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net whose cords and knots are strong; but even so, enmeshed, entangled, you can still get out unless, poor fool, you stand in your own way.
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Avoid Easy Fools Knot Love Stand Way Yourself
Nature allows Destruction nor collapse of aught, until Some outward force may shatter by a blow, Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells, Dissolve it down.
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Allow Collapse Destruction Enter Nature

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

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