Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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Anand Thakur
Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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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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Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can’t lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.
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Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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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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In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
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Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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How many evils have flowed from religion.
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Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.
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The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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