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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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No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.
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Action Difficult Task Willing Yourself
Fear is the mother of all gods.
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The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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For out of doubt In these affairs ’tis each man’s will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused.
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Anand Thakur
Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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There can be no centre in infinity.
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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
All life is a struggle in the dark.
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Darkness Life One Liner Struggle
The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
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Anand Thakur
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.
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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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Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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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
Forbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself vanquished, but, if it is false, gird up your loins to fight.
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Fake Fight Judgement Reason Yourself
All things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to have started and burst asunder.
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Anand Thakur
Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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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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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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