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By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.

Lucretius

Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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Atheist Creation Earth Fear God
O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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Anand Thakur
Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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Anand Thakur
All life is a struggle in the dark.
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Darkness Life One Liner Struggle
One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
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Allow Creation Death Except Nature Price
There is no place in nature for extinction.
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Anand Thakur
If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.
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Man Prophet See Strength Term Trouble
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
We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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Body Decay Mindset Strength
For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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Anand Thakur
From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
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Anand Thakur
True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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Mindset Pity Power True Universe
Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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Creation Existence
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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Earth Fix Guard Kind Life Rain Season
It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.
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Greatness Pleasant Run Sea View
How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Feed Sky Stars

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