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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

Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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Anand Thakur
From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
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Amongst Arise Bitter Flower Fountain Spread
We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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Body Decay Growth Mindset Notice
How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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Blind Man Mindset Understand
So much wrong could religion induce.
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Religion Wrong
No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings – the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.
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Cling Degree Flow Fragment
Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air’s embrace.
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Anand Thakur
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
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Drops Fall Hole Rain Stone
It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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Anand Thakur
From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
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Anand Thakur
For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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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
The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
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Anand Thakur
One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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Food Man Poison
Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Heaven Level Victory
All things obey fixed laws.
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Fix Law Obedience One Liner

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