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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.

Lucretius

We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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Body Decay Mindset Strength
Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
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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
What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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Anand Thakur
There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
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Anand Thakur
Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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Explanation Myself Wind
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Action Evil Religion
Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Crime Reason Superstition
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
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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Anand Thakur
How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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Blind Man Mindset Understand
Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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Anand Thakur
Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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Anand Thakur
Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?
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Action Crime Often Past Reason Religion Time
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
From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
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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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