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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

From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
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Amongst Arise Bitter Flower Fountain Spread
Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air’s embrace.
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Anand Thakur
It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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Greatness Live Mindset Satisfaction Soul Wealth
Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
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Anand Thakur
All things obey fixed laws.
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Fix Law Obedience One Liner
For out of doubt In these affairs ’tis each man’s will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused.
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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
It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.
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Pleasant Struggle Wind
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
Under what law each thing was created, and how necessary it is for it to continue under this, and how it cannot annul the strong rules that govern its lifetime.
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Creation Law Life Necessary Rule Strong Time
How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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Blind Man Mindset Understand
Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.
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Anand Thakur
Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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Anand Thakur
To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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Anand Thakur
Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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Anand Thakur
Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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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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