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For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.

Lucretius

Epicurus whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
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Genius Human Kind Light Rise Stars Sun
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
There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
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Anand Thakur
How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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Blind Man Mindset Understand
There is no place in nature for extinction.
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Anand Thakur
How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Feed Sky Stars
What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Earth Sink
One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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Food Man Poison
Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Heaven Level Victory
From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
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Anand Thakur
Thus 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.
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Earth Fix Guard Kind Life Rain Season
Only religion can lead to such evil.
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Evil Leadership Religion
Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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Anand Thakur
Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
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Anand Thakur
Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.
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Land Seas Struggle Sweet Water
For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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Anand Thakur

For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.

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