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It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.

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For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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Anand Thakur
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 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
It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.
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Greatness Pleasant Run Sea View
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
Thus it comes That earth, without her seasons of fixed rains, Could bear no produce such as makes us glad, And whatsoever lives, if shut from food, Prolongs its kind and guards its life no more.
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Earth Fix Guard Kind Life Rain Season
We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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Body Decay Growth Mindset Notice
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 wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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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
How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Feed Sky Stars
Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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Anand Thakur
One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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Food Man Poison
Fear is the mother of all gods.
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Anand Thakur
Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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Live Man Past Scene
Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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Anand Thakur

It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.

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