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A falling drop at last will carve a stone.

Lucretius

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
Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.
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Anand Thakur
Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.
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Anand Thakur
To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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Anand Thakur
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
The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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Anand Thakur
What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?
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Anand Thakur
Fear is the mother of all gods … Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
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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
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
It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
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Anand Thakur
A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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Drops Fall Power Stone
One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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Food Man Poison
In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
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Anand Thakur
Nothing comes from nothing.
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Empty One Liner

A falling drop at last will carve a stone.

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