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

Lucretius

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
From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
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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
O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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Anand Thakur
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
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Drops Fall Hole Rain Stone
The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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Anand Thakur
Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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Anand Thakur
For there is a VOID in things; a truth which it will be useful for you, in reference to many points, to know; and which will prevent you from wandering in doubt.
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Anand Thakur
If one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape them, and they fill in the gap by putting it down to the gods.
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Earth Escape God People Scare
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
Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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Anand Thakur
All life is a struggle in the dark.
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Darkness Life One Liner Struggle
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.
LUCRETIUS

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
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
Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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Anand Thakur

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

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