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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

Some species increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and, like runners, pass on the torch of life.
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Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.
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Land Seas Struggle Sweet Water
Fear is the mother of all gods.
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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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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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Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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Explanation Myself Wind
A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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Drops Fall Power Stone
Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
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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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Divine Dominant Fear Land Sky Wisdom Work
Nothing comes from nothing.
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Empty One Liner
Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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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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