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Fear is the mother of all gods … Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.

Lucretius

Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
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Anand Thakur
It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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Greatness Live Mindset Satisfaction Soul Wealth
Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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Anand Thakur
From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
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Anand Thakur
The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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Anand Thakur
Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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Anand Thakur
The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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Anand Thakur
I own with reason: for, if men but knew Some fixed end to ills, they would be strong By some device unconquered to withstand Religions and the menacings of seers.
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Conquer Device Known Man Reason Religion
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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Anand Thakur
We in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.
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Anand Thakur
Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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Anand Thakur
There is so much wrong with the world.
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World Wrong
From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
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Amongst Arise Bitter Flower Fountain Spread
Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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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
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

Fear is the mother of all gods … Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.

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