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Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.

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A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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Drops Fall Power Stone
How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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Anand Thakur
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
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
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
All things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to have started and burst asunder.
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Anand Thakur
Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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Anand Thakur
Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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Creation Existence
There can be no centre in infinity.
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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
True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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Mindset Pity Power True Universe
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
One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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Food Man Poison
The sum of all sums is eternity.
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Anand Thakur
Epicurus whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
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Genius Human Kind Light Rise Stars Sun
It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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Anand Thakur
Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Heaven Level Victory
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
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
Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
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Allow Born Death Nature Repair
There is no place in nature for extinction.
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Anand Thakur
The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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Anand Thakur
Those vestiges of natures left behind Which reason cannot quite expel from us Are still so slight that naught prevents a man From living a life even worthy of the gods.
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God Man Nature Prevent Quite Reason Worthy
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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Absence Blow Guilty Mindset
Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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Body Germ
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
The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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Anand Thakur

Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.

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