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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

Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
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Change Nature State Stay Time World
Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
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Anand Thakur
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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Anand Thakur
How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Feed Sky Stars
If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.
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Man Prophet See Strength Term Trouble
Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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Anand Thakur
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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Anand Thakur
We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
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Anand Thakur
The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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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
Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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Body Germ
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
Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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Creation Existence
A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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Drops Fall Power Stone
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
All things obey fixed laws.
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Fix Law Obedience One Liner

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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