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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

The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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Anand Thakur
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Action Evil Religion
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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Anand Thakur
Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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Anand Thakur
To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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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
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
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
Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Crime Reason Superstition
The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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Anand Thakur
All things obey fixed laws.
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Fix Law Obedience One Liner
Now come: that thou mayst able be to know That minds and the light souls of all that live Have mortal birth and death, I will go on Verses to build meet for thy rule of life, Sought after long, discovered with sweet toil.
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Anand Thakur
Thus the sum Forever is replenished, and we live As mortals by eternal give and take. The nations wax, the nations wane away; In a brief space the generations pass, And like to runners hand the lamp of life One unto other.
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Anand Thakur
The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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Anand Thakur
True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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Mindset Pity Power True Universe
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

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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