For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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Anand Thakur
For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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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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Fear is the mother of all gods … Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
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There is no place in nature for extinction.
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What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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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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Only religion can lead to such evil.
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So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
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Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?
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The sum of all sums is eternity.
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