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The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.

Lucretius

The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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Anand Thakur
Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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Anand Thakur
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Action Evil Religion
It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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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
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
Fear holds dominion over mortality Only because, seeing in land and sky So much the cause whereof no wise they know, Men think Divinities are working there.
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Divine Dominant Fear Land Sky Wisdom Work
What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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Anand Thakur
Thus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then ‘tmust have forever its beyond.
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Beyond Forever Limitation Path
These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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Anand Thakur
From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
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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
We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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Body Decay Growth Mindset Notice
Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
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Anand Thakur
There can be no centre in infinity.
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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.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur

The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.

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