The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
LUCRETIUSThus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then ‘tmust have forever its beyond.
More Lucretius Quotes
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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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If the matter of death is reduced to sleep and rest, what can there be so bitter in it, that any one should pine in eternal grief for the decease of a friend?
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All things obey fixed laws.
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Rest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.
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No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.
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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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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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Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
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To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.
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A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
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Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.
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