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Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.

Lucretius

Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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Anand Thakur
The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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Forever Total
Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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Explanation Myself Wind
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Action Evil Religion
Those vestiges of natures left behind Which reason cannot quite expel from us Are still so slight that naught prevents a man From living a life even worthy of the gods.
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God Man Nature Prevent Quite Reason Worthy
The sum of all sums is eternity.
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Anand Thakur
What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Earth Sink
Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches; for never is there any lack of a little.
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Anand Thakur
What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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Anand Thakur
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
No fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvelous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time.
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Believe Diminish Equality Simplicity Time Wonder
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
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
The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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Anand Thakur
Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.
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Anand Thakur
For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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Anand Thakur

Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.

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