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

Lucretius

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

Food Oneself Poison Stand
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
Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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Explanation Myself Wind
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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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 sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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Forever Sum Total Universe
Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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Anand Thakur
Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Heaven Level Victory
The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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Forever Total
Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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Anand Thakur
Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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Anand Thakur
Nature allows Destruction nor collapse of aught, until Some outward force may shatter by a blow, Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells, Dissolve it down.
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Allow Collapse Destruction Enter Nature
Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Crime Reason Superstition
It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.
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Anand Thakur
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
Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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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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