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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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Drops Fall Power Stone
What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Earth Sink
The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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Anand Thakur
Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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Live Man Past Scene
Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
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Change Nature State Stay Time World
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
True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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Mindset Pity Power True Universe
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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Existence God heavy Himself Stone
Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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Anand Thakur
We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
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Anand Thakur
These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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Anand Thakur
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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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
The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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Forever Sum Total Universe
To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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Anand Thakur
The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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Anand Thakur

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

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