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Nothing can be created out of nothing.

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Thus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then ‘tmust have forever its beyond.
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Beyond Forever Limitation Path
Fear holds dominion over mortality Only because, seeing in land and sky So much the cause whereof no wise they know, Men think Divinities are working there.
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Divine Dominant Fear Land Sky Wisdom Work
Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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Anand Thakur
For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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Anand Thakur
How many evils have flowed from religion.
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Evil Flow Religion
All things keep on in everlasting motion, Out of the infinite come the particles, Speeding above, below, in endless dance.
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Anand Thakur
Fear is the mother of all gods.
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Anand Thakur
Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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Anand Thakur
So much wrong could religion induce.
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Religion Wrong
How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Feed Sky Stars
Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.
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Anand Thakur
Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Heaven Level Victory
Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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Anand Thakur
One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
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Allow Creation Death Except Nature Price
Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
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Anand Thakur
I own with reason: for, if men but knew Some fixed end to ills, they would be strong By some device unconquered to withstand Religions and the menacings of seers.
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Nothing can be created out of nothing.

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