The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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Anand Thakur
The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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Truths kindle light for truths.
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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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There is no place in nature for extinction.
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So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
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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 a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.
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If one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape them, and they fill in the gap by putting it down to the gods.
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Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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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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One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
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Only religion can lead to such evil.
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It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.
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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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Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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All things obey fixed laws.
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