"I, answering in the end, began: 'Alas, how many yearning thoughts, what great desire, have lead them through such sorrow to their fate?"
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"Fame is not won on downy plumes nor under canopies; the man who consumes his days without obtaining it leaves such mark of himself on earth as smoke in air or foam on water."
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"The splendors that belong unto the fame of earth are but a wind, that in the same direction lasts not long."
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"A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence."
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"Of my sowing such straw I reap. O human folk, why set the heart there where exclusion of partnership is necessary"
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"You shall leave everything you love."
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"Abandon hope, all ye who enter here. [Omnes relinquite spes, o vos intrantes]"
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"Love with delight discourses in my mindUpon my lady's admirable gifts...Beyond the range of human intellect."
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"The only fit reply to a fit request is silence and the fact."
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"They had their faces twisted toward their haunches and found it necessary to walk backward, because they could not see ahead of them. ...And since he wanted so to see ahead, he looks behind and walks a backward path."
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"Love, that all gentle hearts so quickly know."
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"The three Divine are in this hierarchy, First the Dominions, and the Virtues next; And the third order is that of the Powers. The in the dances twain penultimate The Principalities and Archangels wheel; The last is wholly of angelic sports. These orders upward all of them are gazing, And downward so prevail, that unto God They all attracted are and all attract."
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"These dwell among the blackest souls,loaded down deep by sins of differing types.If you sink far enough,you'll see them all."
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"Mankind, why do ye set your hearts on things That, of necessity, may not be shared?"
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"Behold a God more powerful than I who comes to rule over me."
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"As little flowers, which the chill of night has bent and huddled, when the white sun strikes, grow straight and open fully on their stems, so did I, too, with my exhausted force."
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"Stand firm as the tower that never shakes its top whatever wind may blow."
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"Love can move the Sun and the stars."
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"Often a retrospect delights the mind."
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"Astrology, the noblest of sciences."
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