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

Lucretius

From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
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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
All things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to have started and burst asunder.
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Anand Thakur
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
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
One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
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Allow Creation Death Except Nature Price
Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.
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Fall Forever Myself See Slow System
True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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Mindset Pity Power True Universe
For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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Anand Thakur
Nothing comes from nothing.
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Empty One Liner
A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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Drops Fall Power Stone
Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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Anand Thakur
Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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Anand Thakur
Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches; for never is there any lack of a little.
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Anand Thakur
Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Heaven Level Victory
When bodies spring apart, because the air Somehow condenses, wander they from truth: For then a void is formed, where none before; And, too, a void is filled which was before.
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Body Empty Fill Spring Truth

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