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Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.

Lucretius

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
No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.
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Action Difficult Task Willing Yourself
It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net whose cords and knots are strong; but even so, enmeshed, entangled, you can still get out unless, poor fool, you stand in your own way.
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Avoid Easy Fools Knot Love Stand Way Yourself
Now come: that thou mayst able be to know That minds and the light souls of all that live Have mortal birth and death, I will go on Verses to build meet for thy rule of life, Sought after long, discovered with sweet toil.
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Anand Thakur
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
All life is a struggle in the dark.
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Darkness Life One Liner Struggle
Truths kindle light for truths.
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Light One Liner Truth
We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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Body Decay Mindset Strength
What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Earth Sink
Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.
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Anand Thakur
Nothing comes from nothing.
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Empty One Liner
Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
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Anand Thakur
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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Anand Thakur
Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.
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Anand Thakur
How many evils have flowed from religion.
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Evil Flow Religion
Thus it comes That earth, without her seasons of fixed rains, Could bear no produce such as makes us glad, And whatsoever lives, if shut from food, Prolongs its kind and guards its life no more.
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Earth Fix Guard Kind Life Rain Season

Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.

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Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.

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