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Lucretius

Thus it comes That earth, without her seasons of fixed rains, Could bear no produce such as makes us glad, And whatsoever lives, if shut from food, Prolongs its kind and guards its life no more.
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Earth Fix Guard Kind Life Rain Season
How many evils have flowed from religion.
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Evil Flow Religion
Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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Anand Thakur
Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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Explanation Myself Wind
I own with reason: for, if men but knew Some fixed end to ills, they would be strong By some device unconquered to withstand Religions and the menacings of seers.
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Conquer Device Known Man Reason Religion
Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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Anand Thakur
One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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Food Man Poison
How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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Anand Thakur
No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.
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Action Difficult Task Willing Yourself
And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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Anand Thakur
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
Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
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Anand Thakur
Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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Anand Thakur
There is no place in nature for extinction.
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Anand Thakur
If one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape them, and they fill in the gap by putting it down to the gods.
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Earth Escape God People Scare
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

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