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We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.

Lucretius

For out of doubt In these affairs ’tis each man’s will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused.
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Anand Thakur
The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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Anand Thakur
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
Fear is the mother of all gods.
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Anand Thakur
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
Forbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself vanquished, but, if it is false, gird up your loins to fight.
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Fake Fight Judgement Reason Yourself
From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
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Amongst Arise Bitter Flower Fountain Spread
The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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Anand Thakur
Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches; for never is there any lack of a little.
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Anand Thakur
Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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Anand Thakur
It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.
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Pleasant Struggle Wind
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
Meantime, when once we know from nothing still Nothing can be create, we shall divine More clearly what we seek: those elements From which alone all things created are, And how accomplished by no tool of Gods.
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Anand Thakur
The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.
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Await Built Old Way
It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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Greatness Live Mindset Satisfaction Soul Wealth
What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Earth Sink

We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.

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