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Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.

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From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
LUCRETIUS

Amongst Arise Bitter Flower Fountain Spread
Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Crime Reason Superstition
Meantime, when once we know from nothing still Nothing can be create, we shall divine More clearly what we seek: those elements From which alone all things created are, And how accomplished by no tool of Gods.
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Anand Thakur
Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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Anand Thakur
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
The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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Anand Thakur
There is no place in nature for extinction.
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Anand Thakur
The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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Forever Total
These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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Anand Thakur
Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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Anand Thakur
Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?
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Anand Thakur
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
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Drops Fall Hole Rain Stone
Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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Anand Thakur
Some species increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and, like runners, pass on the torch of life.
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Anand Thakur
Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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Creation Existence
To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.
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Anand Thakur

Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.

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