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Falling drops will at last wear away stone.

Lucretius

Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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Anand Thakur
Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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Anand Thakur
Fear is the mother of all gods.
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Anand Thakur
No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings – the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.
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Cling Degree Flow Fragment
What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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Anand Thakur
We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
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Anand Thakur
Now come: that thou mayst able be to know That minds and the light souls of all that live Have mortal birth and death, I will go on Verses to build meet for thy rule of life, Sought after long, discovered with sweet toil.
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Anand Thakur
By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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Death Life Oneself
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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Anand Thakur
The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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Forever Sum Total Universe
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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Drive Height Man Religion
Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
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Food Oneself Poison Stand
Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Heaven Level Victory
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
Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
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Anand Thakur
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

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