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By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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Death Life Oneself
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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Anand Thakur
Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
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Change Nature State Stay Time World
Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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Anand Thakur
Thus the sum Forever is replenished, and we live As mortals by eternal give and take. The nations wax, the nations wane away; In a brief space the generations pass, And like to runners hand the lamp of life One unto other.
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Anand Thakur
Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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Anand Thakur
Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Crime Reason Superstition
Thus it comes That earth, without her seasons of fixed rains, Could bear no produce such as makes us glad, And whatsoever lives, if shut from food, Prolongs its kind and guards its life no more.
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Earth Fix Guard Kind Life Rain Season
Nothing comes from nothing.
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Empty One Liner
Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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Anand Thakur
Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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Live Man Past Scene
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
You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.
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Anand Thakur
It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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Anand Thakur
There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
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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

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