It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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Anand Thakur
It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?
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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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True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
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It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.
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Rest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.
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The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
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Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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