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Continual dropping wears away a stone.

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Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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Drive Height Man Religion
Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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Anand Thakur
How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Feed Sky Stars
There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
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Anand Thakur
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
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
No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings – the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.
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Cling Degree Flow Fragment
In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
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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
For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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Anand Thakur
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
I own with reason: for, if men but knew Some fixed end to ills, they would be strong By some device unconquered to withstand Religions and the menacings of seers.
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Conquer Device Known Man Reason Religion
Deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.
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Anand Thakur
So much wrong could religion induce.
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Religion Wrong
Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?
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Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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Creation Existence

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