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We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.

Lucretius

What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.
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Carry Earth Heaven Return Spirit Temple
Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.
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Anand Thakur
A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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Drops Fall Power Stone
The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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Anand Thakur
All life is a struggle in the dark.
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Darkness Life One Liner Struggle
And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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Anand Thakur
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
It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.
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Anand Thakur
What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Earth Sink
Forbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself vanquished, but, if it is false, gird up your loins to fight.
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Fake Fight Judgement Reason Yourself
How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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Anand Thakur
To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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Anand Thakur
Meantime, when once we know from nothing still Nothing can be create, we shall divine More clearly what we seek: those elements From which alone all things created are, And how accomplished by no tool of Gods.
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Anand Thakur
Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e’en now, e’en now, we die.
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Anand Thakur
Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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Body Germ
Epicurus whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
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Genius Human Kind Light Rise Stars Sun

We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.

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