"How is it that the sky feeds the…" — Lucretius
"How is it that the sky feeds the stars?"
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97 Quotes by Lucretius
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All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher.
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So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with…
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No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings - the things thus grow Until we know…
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For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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In a brief space the generations of beings are changed, and, like runners, pass on the torches of life.
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Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great…
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Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
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From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
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Many animals even now spring out of the soil, Coalescing from the rains and the heat of the sun. Small…
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The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
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The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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I want to be ripped apart by music. I want it to be something that feeds and replenishes, or that…
— Jeff Buckley
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Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
— Dick Cavett
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An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
— Winston Churchill
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Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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There is enough for everyone to have what they need without exploitation. Adequate distribution of resources, including education, without violence…
— Unknown Author
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Love is kindled in a flame, and ardency is its life. Flame is the air which true Christian experience breathes.…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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Memory feeds imagination.
— Amy Tan
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Charity feeds the poor, so does pride; charity builds an hospital, so does pride. In this they differ: charity gives…
— Francis Quarles
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I love life. I'm fascinated by human behavior because that feeds back into my work.
— Joseph Fiennes
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The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom…
— Albert Camus
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True evangelical faith, cannot lie dormant, it clothes the naked, it feeds the hungry, it comforts the sorrowful, it shelters…
— Menno Simons
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