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The sum of all sums is eternity.

Lucretius

Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.
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Anand Thakur
Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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Atheist Creation Earth Fear God
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
The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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Anand Thakur
There is so much wrong with the world.
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World Wrong
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
Nature allows Destruction nor collapse of aught, until Some outward force may shatter by a blow, Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells, Dissolve it down.
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Allow Collapse Destruction Enter Nature
Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
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Anand Thakur
Only religion can lead to such evil.
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Evil Leadership Religion
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
If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.
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Man Prophet See Strength Term Trouble
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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Drive Height Man Religion
From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
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Anand Thakur
For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.
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Admire Fools Hide Love See Sound Truth Verse
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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Land Seas Struggle Sweet Water
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

The sum of all sums is eternity.

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