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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

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
The sum of all sums is eternity.
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Anand Thakur
The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
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Anand Thakur
Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?
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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
Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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Body Germ
How many evils have flowed from religion.
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Evil Flow 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
Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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Anand Thakur
By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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Death Life Oneself
The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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Anand Thakur
Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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Anand Thakur
Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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Anand Thakur
And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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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
The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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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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