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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

Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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Anand Thakur
These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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Anand Thakur
Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.
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Anand Thakur
One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
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Allow Creation Death Except Nature Price
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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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
The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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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
All things obey fixed laws.
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Fix Law Obedience One Liner
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
How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Feed Sky Stars
Thus the sum Forever is replenished, and we live As mortals by eternal give and take. The nations wax, the nations wane away; In a brief space the generations pass, And like to runners hand the lamp of life One unto other.
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Anand Thakur
Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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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
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
From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
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Amongst Arise Bitter Flower Fountain Spread

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

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