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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

Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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Atheist Creation Earth Fear God
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
Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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Live Man Past Scene
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
If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can’t lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.
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Existence God heavy Himself Stone
I own with reason: for, if men but knew Some fixed end to ills, they would be strong By some device unconquered to withstand Religions and the menacings of seers.
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Conquer Device Known Man Reason Religion
There is no place in nature for extinction.
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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
So much wrong could religion induce.
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Religion Wrong
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
Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Crime Reason Superstition
No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.
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Action Difficult Task Willing Yourself
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 pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.
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Pleasant Struggle Wind
Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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Anand Thakur
What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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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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