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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

So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Action Evil Religion
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
There is no place in nature for extinction.
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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
Forbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself vanquished, but, if it is false, gird up your loins to fight.
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Fake Fight Judgement Reason Yourself
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
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
The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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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
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
Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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Anand Thakur
If the matter of death is reduced to sleep and rest, what can there be so bitter in it, that any one should pine in eternal grief for the decease of a friend?
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Anand Thakur
Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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Live Man Past Scene
So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
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Anand Thakur
The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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Anand Thakur
Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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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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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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