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Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.

Lucretius

A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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Drops Fall Power Stone
For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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Anand Thakur
No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.
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Action Difficult Task Willing Yourself
If the matter of death is reduced to sleep and rest, what can there be so bitter in it, that any one should pine in eternal grief for the decease of a friend?
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Anand Thakur
Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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Anand Thakur
Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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Anand Thakur
From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
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Anand Thakur
Thus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then ‘tmust have forever its beyond.
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Beyond Forever Limitation Path
Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e’en now, e’en now, we die.
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Anand Thakur
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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Drive Height Man Religion
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
Fear is the mother of all gods … Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
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Anand Thakur
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Action Evil Religion
You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.
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Anand Thakur
The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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Anand Thakur
What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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Anand Thakur

Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.

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