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Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.

Lucretius

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
Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
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Absence Blow Guilty Mindset
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
So much wrong could religion induce.
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Religion Wrong
Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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Atheist Creation Earth Fear God
Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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Anand Thakur
Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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Anand Thakur
Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Heaven Level Victory
So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
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Anand Thakur
Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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Live Man Past Scene
You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.
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Anand Thakur
We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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Body Decay Growth Mindset Notice
And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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Anand Thakur
The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
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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
Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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Anand Thakur

Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.

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