Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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Anand Thakur
Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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Nature allows Destruction nor collapse of aught, until Some outward force may shatter by a blow, Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells, Dissolve it down.
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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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Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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All things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to have started and burst asunder.
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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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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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It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.
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O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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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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By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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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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A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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The sum of all sums is eternity.
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