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From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.

Lucretius

Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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Anand Thakur
Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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Explanation Myself Wind
I own with reason: for, if men but knew Some fixed end to ills, they would be strong By some device unconquered to withstand Religions and the menacings of seers.
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Conquer Device Known Man Reason Religion
Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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Anand Thakur
It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
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Anand Thakur
If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can’t lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.
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Existence God heavy Himself Stone
How many evils have flowed from religion.
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Evil Flow Religion
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
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
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
Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Crime Reason Superstition
Only religion can lead to such evil.
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Evil Leadership Religion
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
It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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Anand Thakur
The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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Anand Thakur
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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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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