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Falling drops will at last wear away stone.

Lucretius

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
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
How many evils have flowed from religion.
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Evil Flow Religion
Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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Body Germ
How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Feed Sky Stars
Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
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
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
It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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Anand Thakur
Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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Anand Thakur
So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.
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Anand Thakur
For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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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
Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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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
Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
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Anand Thakur

Falling drops will at last wear away stone.

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