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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.

Lucretius

All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they’re set, and where they’re moved around.
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Body Empty Move Nature Sustain
Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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Anand Thakur
Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Heaven Level Victory
Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches; for never is there any lack of a little.
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Anand Thakur
How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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Blind Man Mindset Understand
Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
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Food Oneself Poison Stand
Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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Anand Thakur
There can be no centre in infinity.
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Anand Thakur
The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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Anand Thakur
There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
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Anand Thakur
So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.
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Anand Thakur
Only religion can lead to such evil.
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Evil Leadership Religion
Thus the sum Forever is replenished, and we live As mortals by eternal give and take. The nations wax, the nations wane away; In a brief space the generations pass, And like to runners hand the lamp of life One unto other.
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Anand Thakur
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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Divine Dominant Fear Land Sky Wisdom Work
Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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Anand Thakur
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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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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