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Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.

Lucretius

How many evils have flowed from religion.
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Evil Flow Religion
The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
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Anand Thakur
The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
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Divine Mistake Nature Power See Universe
Truths kindle light for truths.
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Light One Liner Truth
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
Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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Body Germ
Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
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Anand Thakur
Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
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Anand Thakur
O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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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
Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air’s embrace.
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Anand Thakur
Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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Anand Thakur
Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
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Food Oneself Poison Stand
Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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Anand Thakur
What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.
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Carry Earth Heaven Return Spirit Temple
And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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Anand Thakur

Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.

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