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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.

Lucretius

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 drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
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Drops Fall Hole Rain Stone
Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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Anand Thakur
The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
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Anand Thakur
Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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Live Man Past Scene
Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Heaven Level Victory
Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air’s embrace.
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Anand Thakur
Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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Body Germ
The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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Forever Sum Total Universe
From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
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Anand Thakur
The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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Anand Thakur
Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Crime Reason Superstition
No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings – the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.
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Cling Degree Flow Fragment
The sum of all sums is eternity.
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Anand Thakur
There is no place in nature for extinction.
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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

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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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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