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

Lucretius

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
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Drops Fall Hole Rain Stone
One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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Food Man Poison
Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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Anand Thakur
These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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Anand Thakur
Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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Atheist Creation Earth Fear God
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
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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Drive Height Man Religion
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
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
By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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Death Life Oneself
True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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Mindset Pity Power True Universe
Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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Anand Thakur
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Action Evil Religion
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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Anand Thakur
Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
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Change Nature State Stay Time World
Deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.
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Anand Thakur
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
Nothing comes from nothing.
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Empty One Liner
Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
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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
Now come: that thou mayst able be to know That minds and the light souls of all that live Have mortal birth and death, I will go on Verses to build meet for thy rule of life, Sought after long, discovered with sweet toil.
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Anand Thakur
For there is a VOID in things; a truth which it will be useful for you, in reference to many points, to know; and which will prevent you from wandering in doubt.
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Anand Thakur
So much wrong could religion induce.
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Religion Wrong
The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.
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Anand Thakur
Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?
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Action Crime Often Past Reason Religion Time
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
Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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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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