And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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Anand Thakur
And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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Nothing comes from nothing.
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There is so much wrong with the world.
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Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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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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How many evils have flowed from religion.
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Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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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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Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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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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How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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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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It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
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