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What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.

Lucretius

Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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Drive Height Man Religion
All things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to have started and burst asunder.
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Anand Thakur
Truths kindle light for truths.
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Light One Liner Truth
And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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Anand Thakur
Only religion can lead to such evil.
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Evil Leadership Religion
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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Fake Fight Judgement Reason Yourself
It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.
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Greatness Pleasant Run Sea View
Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?
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Action Crime Often Past Reason Religion Time
Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Heaven Level Victory
Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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Anand Thakur
It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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Anand Thakur
Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
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Anand Thakur
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
The sum of all sums is eternity.
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Anand Thakur
It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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Anand Thakur
For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.
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Admire Fools Hide Love See Sound Truth Verse

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