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Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e’en now, e’en now, we die.

Lucretius

The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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Forever Sum Total Universe
Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.
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Anand Thakur
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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Anand Thakur
O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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Anand Thakur
Fear holds dominion over mortality Only because, seeing in land and sky So much the cause whereof no wise they know, Men think Divinities are working there.
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Divine Dominant Fear Land Sky Wisdom Work
All things obey fixed laws.
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Fix Law Obedience One Liner
Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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Explanation Myself Wind
Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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Anand Thakur
Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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Anand Thakur
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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Anand Thakur
Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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Anand Thakur
Thus it comes That earth, without her seasons of fixed rains, Could bear no produce such as makes us glad, And whatsoever lives, if shut from food, Prolongs its kind and guards its life no more.
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Earth Fix Guard Kind Life Rain Season
Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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Live Man Past Scene
For there is a VOID in things; a truth which it will be useful for you, in reference to many points, to know; and which will prevent you from wandering in doubt.
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Anand Thakur
All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they’re set, and where they’re moved around.
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Body Empty Move Nature Sustain
You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.
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Anand Thakur

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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