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
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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Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
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In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
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Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e’en now, e’en now, we die.
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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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Only religion can lead to such evil.
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Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.
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It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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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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Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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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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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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From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
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The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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