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We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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Body Decay Growth Mindset Notice
There is no place in nature for extinction.
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Anand Thakur
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
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
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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Drive Height Man Religion
Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.
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Anand Thakur
The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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Anand Thakur
How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Feed Sky Stars
Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.
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Anand Thakur
Forbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself vanquished, but, if it is false, gird up your loins to fight.
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Fake Fight Judgement Reason Yourself
It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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Anand Thakur
Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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Anand Thakur
All things keep on in everlasting motion, Out of the infinite come the particles, Speeding above, below, in endless dance.
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Anand Thakur
It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
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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
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
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
Now come: that thou mayst able be to know That minds and the light souls of all that live Have mortal birth and death, I will go on Verses to build meet for thy rule of life, Sought after long, discovered with sweet toil.
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Anand Thakur
Fear is the mother of all gods … Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
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Anand Thakur
From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
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Amongst Arise Bitter Flower Fountain Spread
It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net whose cords and knots are strong; but even so, enmeshed, entangled, you can still get out unless, poor fool, you stand in your own way.
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Avoid Easy Fools Knot Love Stand Way Yourself
True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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Mindset Pity Power True Universe
Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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Body Germ
Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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Live Man Past Scene
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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Anand Thakur
Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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Anand Thakur
All things obey fixed laws.
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Fix Law Obedience One Liner

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