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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.

Lucretius

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
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Drops Fall Hole Rain Stone
Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Heaven Level Victory
Nothing comes from nothing.
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Empty One Liner
What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Earth Sink
If one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape them, and they fill in the gap by putting it down to the gods.
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Earth Escape God People Scare
How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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Blind Man Mindset Understand
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
How many evils have flowed from religion.
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Evil Flow Religion
Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
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Anand Thakur
Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
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Anand Thakur
Truths kindle light for truths.
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Light One Liner Truth
True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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Mindset Pity Power True Universe
Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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Atheist Creation Earth Fear God
The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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Anand Thakur
Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
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Absence Blow Guilty Mindset
O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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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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