Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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Anand Thakur
Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.
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Forbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself vanquished, but, if it is false, gird up your loins to fight.
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From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
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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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Rest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.
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Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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No fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvelous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time.
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Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.
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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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Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
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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.
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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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How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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