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The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.

Lucretius

And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
LUCRETIUS

Drops Fall Hole Rain Stone
Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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Anand Thakur
A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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Drops Fall Power Stone
We in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.
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Anand Thakur
Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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Explanation Myself Wind
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
Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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Anand Thakur
One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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Food Man Poison
For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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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
It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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Anand Thakur
Those vestiges of natures left behind Which reason cannot quite expel from us Are still so slight that naught prevents a man From living a life even worthy of the gods.
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God Man Nature Prevent Quite Reason Worthy
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

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.

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