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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.

Lucretius

True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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Mindset Pity Power True Universe
The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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Forever Total
It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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Greatness Live Mindset Satisfaction Soul Wealth
In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
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Anand Thakur
The sum of all sums is eternity.
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Anand Thakur
Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
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Anand Thakur
For out of doubt In these affairs ’tis each man’s will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused.
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Anand Thakur
Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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Anand Thakur
Globed 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.
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Fall Forever Myself See Slow System
Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
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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
Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
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Change Nature State Stay Time World
What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Earth Sink
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
It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.
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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

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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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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