One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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Anand Thakur
One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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No fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvelous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time.
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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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How many evils have flowed from religion.
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Truths kindle light for truths.
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You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.
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Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.
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The sum of all sums is eternity.
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Under what law each thing was created, and how necessary it is for it to continue under this, and how it cannot annul the strong rules that govern its lifetime.
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Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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All things obey fixed laws.
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For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.
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