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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
Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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Anand Thakur
Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
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Anand Thakur
There is no place in nature for extinction.
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Anand Thakur
All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they’re set, and where they’re moved around.
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Body Empty Move Nature Sustain
We in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.
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Anand Thakur
Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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Live Man Past Scene
Meantime, when once we know from nothing still Nothing can be create, we shall divine More clearly what we seek: those elements From which alone all things created are, And how accomplished by no tool of Gods.
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Anand Thakur
The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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Forever Total
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
What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Earth Sink
If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can’t lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.
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Existence God heavy Himself Stone
One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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Food Man Poison
The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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Anand Thakur
True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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Mindset Pity Power True Universe
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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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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