Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?
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Anand Thakur
Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?
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You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.
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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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Nothing comes from nothing.
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Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
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For out of doubt In these affairs ’tis each man’s will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused.
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From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
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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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It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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Truths kindle light for truths.
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Fear is the mother of all gods … Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
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It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.
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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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Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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Under what law each thing was created, and how necessary it is for it to continue under this, and how it cannot annul the strong rules that govern its lifetime.
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