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The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).

Lucretius

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
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
Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.
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Fall Forever Myself See Slow System
The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.
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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
Nothing comes from nothing.
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Empty One Liner
Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Heaven Level Victory
Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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Body Germ
To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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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
Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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Anand Thakur
Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
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Change Nature State Stay Time World
Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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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
The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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Anand Thakur
What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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Anand Thakur

The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).

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