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A falling drop at last will carve a stone.

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Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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Anand Thakur
How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Feed Sky Stars
Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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Anand Thakur
Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?
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Anand Thakur
All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they’re set, and where they’re moved around.
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Body Empty Move Nature Sustain
So much wrong could religion induce.
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Religion Wrong
There is so much wrong with the world.
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World Wrong
The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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Anand Thakur
For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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Anand Thakur
For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.
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Admire Fools Hide Love See Sound Truth Verse
Thus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then ‘tmust have forever its beyond.
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Beyond Forever Limitation Path
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
Nothing comes from nothing.
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Empty One Liner
The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
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Divine Mistake Nature Power See Universe
Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Crime Reason Superstition
From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
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Amongst Arise Bitter Flower Fountain Spread

A falling drop at last will carve a stone.

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