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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.

Lucretius

Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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Anand Thakur
If one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape them, and they fill in the gap by putting it down to the gods.
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Earth Escape God People Scare
So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.
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Anand Thakur
You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.
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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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Conquer Device Known Man Reason Religion
Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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Anand Thakur
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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Fall Forever Myself See Slow System
The sum of all sums is eternity.
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Anand Thakur
Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Crime Reason Superstition
Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Heaven Level Victory
The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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Body Germ
It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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Anand Thakur
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
Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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Anand Thakur
What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.
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Carry Earth Heaven Return Spirit Temple

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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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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