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

Lucretius

So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
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Anand Thakur
These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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Anand Thakur
All life is a struggle in the dark.
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Darkness Life One Liner Struggle
If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can’t lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.
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Existence God heavy Himself Stone
Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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Anand Thakur
It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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Anand Thakur
How many evils have flowed from religion.
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Evil Flow Religion
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.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.
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Land Seas Struggle Sweet Water
What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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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
Thus the sum Forever is replenished, and we live As mortals by eternal give and take. The nations wax, the nations wane away; In a brief space the generations pass, And like to runners hand the lamp of life One unto other.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?
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Anand Thakur
Only religion can lead to such evil.
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Evil Leadership Religion
If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.
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Man Prophet See Strength Term Trouble
Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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Explanation Myself Wind

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