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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Anand Thakur
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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Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.
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Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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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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Nothing comes from nothing.
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Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
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The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
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The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
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Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
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Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e’en now, e’en now, we die.
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What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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