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It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.

Lucretius

What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?
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Anand Thakur
Fear holds dominion over mortality Only because, seeing in land and sky So much the cause whereof no wise they know, Men think Divinities are working there.
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Divine Dominant Fear Land Sky Wisdom Work
Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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Anand Thakur
Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
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Absence Blow Guilty Mindset
All things keep on in everlasting motion, Out of the infinite come the particles, Speeding above, below, in endless dance.
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Anand Thakur
Those vestiges of natures left behind Which reason cannot quite expel from us Are still so slight that naught prevents a man From living a life even worthy of the gods.
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God Man Nature Prevent Quite Reason Worthy
When bodies spring apart, because the air Somehow condenses, wander they from truth: For then a void is formed, where none before; And, too, a void is filled which was before.
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Body Empty Fill Spring Truth
One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
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Allow Creation Death Except Nature Price
These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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Anand Thakur
Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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Anand Thakur
It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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Anand Thakur
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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Anand Thakur
What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.
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Carry Earth Heaven Return Spirit Temple
Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
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Anand Thakur
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
For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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Anand Thakur

It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.

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