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

Lucretius

The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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Anand Thakur
There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
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Anand Thakur
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
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Action Evil Religion
The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
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Anand Thakur
Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
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Food Oneself Poison Stand
Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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Anand Thakur
All things obey fixed laws.
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Fix Law Obedience One Liner
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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Fall Forever Myself See Slow System
Thus the sum Forever is replenished, and we live As mortals by eternal give and take. The nations wax, the nations wane away; In a brief space the generations pass, And like to runners hand the lamp of life One unto other.
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Anand Thakur
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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Drive Height Man Religion
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
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
Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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Anand Thakur
These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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Anand Thakur
By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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Death Life Oneself

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