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Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.

Lucretius

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
So much wrong could religion induce.
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Religion Wrong
Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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Anand Thakur
The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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Forever Sum Total Universe
Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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Explanation Myself Wind
Truths kindle light for truths.
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Light One Liner Truth
These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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Anand Thakur
All life is a struggle in the dark.
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Darkness Life One Liner Struggle
Some species increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and, like runners, pass on the torch of life.
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Anand Thakur
Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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Anand Thakur
And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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Anand Thakur
How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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Blind Man Mindset Understand
Those vestiges of natures left behind Which reason cannot quite expel from us Are still so slight that naught prevents a man From living a life even worthy of the gods.
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God Man Nature Prevent Quite Reason Worthy
For out of doubt In these affairs ’tis each man’s will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused.
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Anand Thakur
Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?
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Action Crime Often Past Reason Religion Time
So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.
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Anand Thakur

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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