"He who know most grieves most for wasted time."
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"Thou shall know by experience how salt the savor is of others' bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's stairs."
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"Thy soul is by vile fear assailed, which oft so overcasts a man, that he recoils from noblest resolution, like a beast at some false semblance in the twilight gloom."
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"Go forth and preach impostures to the world, But give them truth to build on."
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"Before me things created were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here."
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"Your fame is as the grass, whose hue comes and goes, and His might withers it by whose power it sprang from the lap of the earth."
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"And as he, who with laboring breath has escaped from the deep to the shore, turns to the perilous waters and gazes."
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"If i thought i was replying to someone who would every return to the world, this flame would cease it's flickering. But since no one has returned from these depths alive, if what I've heard is true, I will answer you without fear of infamy."
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"But already my desire and my will were being turned like a wheel, all at one speed, by the Love which moves the sun and the other stars"
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"O how far remov'd, Predestination! is thy foot from such As see not the First Cause entire: and ye, O mortal men! be wary how ye judge: For we, who see the Maker, know not yet The number of the chosen; and esteem Such scantiness of knowledge our delight: For all good is, in that primal good, Concentrate; and God's will and ours are one."
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"All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings it forth, soon slays with parching power."
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"Will cannot be quenched against its will."
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"There is in hell a place stone-built throughout, Called Malebolge, of an iron hue, Like to the wall that circles it about."
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"All of nature is God's art."
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"e quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle" ("and thence we came forth to see again the stars")"
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"Less shame a greater fault would palliate."
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"Do ye not comprehend that we are worms born to bring forth the angelic butterfly that flieth unto judgment without screen?"
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"To course across more kindly waters now my talent's little vessel lifts her sails, leaving behind herself a sea so cruel; and what I sing will be that second kingdom, in which the human soul is cleansed of sin, becoming worthy of ascent to Heaven."
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"…all things created have an order in themselves, and this begets the form that lets the universe resemble God."
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"I felt for the tormented whirlwinds Damned for their carnal sins Committed when they let their passions rule their reason."
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