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From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.

Lucretius

Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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Anand Thakur
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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Absence Blow Guilty Mindset
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
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
The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
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Anand Thakur
Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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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
There can be no centre in infinity.
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Anand Thakur
Under what law each thing was created, and how necessary it is for it to continue under this, and how it cannot annul the strong rules that govern its lifetime.
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Creation Law Life Necessary Rule Strong Time
Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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Anand Thakur
It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.
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Greatness Pleasant Run Sea View
Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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Anand Thakur
Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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Anand Thakur
These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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Anand Thakur
One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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Food Man Poison
For out of doubt In these affairs ’tis each man’s will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused.
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Anand Thakur

From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.

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