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.
LUCRETIUSToo often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?
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It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.
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How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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Deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.
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There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
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If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can’t lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.
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No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.
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Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
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It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?
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All things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to have started and burst asunder.
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Rest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.
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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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Only religion can lead to such evil.
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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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