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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
The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
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Anand Thakur
So much wrong could religion induce.
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Religion Wrong
Under what law each thing was created, and how necessary it is for it to continue under this, and how it cannot annul the strong rules that govern its lifetime.
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Creation Law Life Necessary Rule Strong Time
For there is a VOID in things; a truth which it will be useful for you, in reference to many points, to know; and which will prevent you from wandering in doubt.
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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
The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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Anand Thakur
The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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Anand Thakur
In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
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Anand Thakur
Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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Anand Thakur
Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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Anand Thakur
And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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Anand Thakur
What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.
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Carry Earth Heaven Return Spirit Temple
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
Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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Body Germ
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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Drive Height Man Religion

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