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Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.

Lucretius

So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Action Evil Religion
Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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Anand Thakur
So much wrong could religion induce.
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Religion Wrong
Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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Explanation Myself Wind
Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Heaven Level Victory
Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
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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
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
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
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’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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Anand Thakur
Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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Atheist Creation Earth Fear God
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
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
The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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Forever Total
By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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Death Life Oneself

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