The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.
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Anand Thakur
The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.
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All things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to have started and burst asunder.
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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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All things obey fixed laws.
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For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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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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Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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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.
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The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.
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Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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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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There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
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All things keep on in everlasting motion, Out of the infinite come the particles, Speeding above, below, in endless dance.
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Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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