One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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Anand Thakur
One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.
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Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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All life is a struggle in the dark.
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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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So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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There is no place in nature for extinction.
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It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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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.
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You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.
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Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?
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Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?
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