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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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Anand Thakur
Nothing comes from nothing.
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Empty One Liner
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
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
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
Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
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Anand Thakur
All life is a struggle in the dark.
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Darkness Life One Liner Struggle
The sum of all sums is eternity.
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Anand Thakur
The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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Anand Thakur
Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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Anand Thakur
What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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Anand Thakur
For out of doubt In these affairs ’tis each man’s will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused.
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Anand Thakur
Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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Anand Thakur
Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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Anand Thakur
Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.
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Anand Thakur
We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
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Anand Thakur

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