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True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.

Lucretius

We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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Anand Thakur
How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Feed Sky Stars
The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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Anand Thakur
Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.
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Fall Forever Myself See Slow System
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
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
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.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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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
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
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
Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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Anand Thakur
Only religion can lead to such evil.
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Evil Leadership Religion
We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
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Anand Thakur
Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.
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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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