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Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.

Lucretius

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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Absence Blow Guilty Mindset
Now come: that thou mayst able be to know That minds and the light souls of all that live Have mortal birth and death, I will go on Verses to build meet for thy rule of life, Sought after long, discovered with sweet toil.
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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
There is so much wrong with the world.
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World Wrong
From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
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Anand Thakur
Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
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Allow Born Death Nature Repair
How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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Blind Man Mindset Understand
We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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Body Decay Mindset Strength
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 very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
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Amongst Arise Bitter Flower Fountain Spread
Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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Anand Thakur
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
The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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Forever Sum Total Universe
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
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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Anand Thakur
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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Anand Thakur

Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.

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