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No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.

Lucretius

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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Anand Thakur
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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Divine Mistake Nature Power See Universe
From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
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Anand Thakur
Nothing comes from nothing.
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Empty One Liner
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
A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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Drops Fall Power Stone
These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Feed Sky Stars
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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Existence God heavy Himself Stone
Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.
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Land Seas Struggle Sweet Water
By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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Death Life Oneself
Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?
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Anand Thakur
When bodies spring apart, because the air Somehow condenses, wander they from truth: For then a void is formed, where none before; And, too, a void is filled which was before.
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Body Empty Fill Spring Truth
You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.
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Anand Thakur
No fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvelous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time.
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Believe Diminish Equality Simplicity Time Wonder
From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur

No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.

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