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Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.

Lucretius

The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
LUCRETIUS

Forever Sum Total Universe
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
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
How many evils have flowed from religion.
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Evil Flow Religion
Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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Anand Thakur
Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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Creation Existence
There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
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Anand Thakur
So much wrong could religion induce.
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Religion Wrong
Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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Anand Thakur
Those vestiges of natures left behind Which reason cannot quite expel from us Are still so slight that naught prevents a man From living a life even worthy of the gods.
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God Man Nature Prevent Quite Reason Worthy
What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?
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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
There is so much wrong with the world.
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World Wrong
Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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Atheist Creation Earth Fear God
We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
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Anand Thakur
Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?
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Anand Thakur

Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.

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