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Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.

Lucretius

Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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Anand Thakur
What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Earth Sink
These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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Anand Thakur
The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.
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Await Built Old Way
The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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Anand Thakur
Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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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
It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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Greatness Live Mindset Satisfaction Soul Wealth
Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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Anand Thakur
Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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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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Pleasant Struggle Wind
Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
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Allow Born Death Nature Repair
Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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Anand Thakur
To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.
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Anand Thakur
No fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvelous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time.
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Believe Diminish Equality Simplicity Time Wonder
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 was the first thing on Earth to create gods.

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