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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.

Lucretius

What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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Anand Thakur
Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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Atheist Creation Earth Fear God
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 is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
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Anand Thakur
Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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Anand Thakur
There can be no centre in infinity.
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Anand Thakur
The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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Anand Thakur
For out of doubt In these affairs ’tis each man’s will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused.
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Anand Thakur
Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
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Anand Thakur
Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
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Absence Blow Guilty Mindset
Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Crime Reason Superstition
No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings – the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.
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Cling Degree Flow Fragment
Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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Live Man Past Scene
How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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Anand Thakur
Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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Anand Thakur
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

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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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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