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.
LUCRETIUSSuch crimes has superstition caused.
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Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
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How many evils have flowed from religion.
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The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
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All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they’re set, and where they’re moved around.
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Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air’s embrace.
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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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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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