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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

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
Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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Anand Thakur
Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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Creation Existence
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
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Drops Fall Hole Rain Stone
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
Some species increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and, like runners, pass on the torch of life.
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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
How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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Blind Man Mindset Understand
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
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
From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
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Anand Thakur
Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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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
In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
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Anand Thakur
And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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Anand Thakur
Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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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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