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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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From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
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There is no place in nature for extinction.
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So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Action Evil Religion
So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
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Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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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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To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.
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The sum of all sums is eternity.
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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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Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?
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Anand Thakur
Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?
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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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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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Greatness Live Mindset Satisfaction Soul Wealth
Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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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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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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