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We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.

Lucretius

Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
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Food Oneself Poison Stand
All life is a struggle in the dark.
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Darkness Life One Liner Struggle
No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.
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Action Difficult Task Willing Yourself
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
By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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Death Life Oneself
You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.
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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
Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
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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
We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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Body Decay Mindset Strength
It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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Anand Thakur
One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
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Allow Creation Death Except Nature Price
Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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Anand Thakur
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Action Evil Religion
All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they’re set, and where they’re moved around.
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Body Empty Move Nature Sustain
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

We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.

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We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.

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