"Without hope we live in desire."
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"O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?"
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"If you follow your natural bent;you will definitely go to heaven"
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"...Everything that is, desires to be. As we act, we unfold our being. Enjoyment naturally follows, for a thing desired always brings delight."
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"Lying in a featherbed will bring you no fame, nor staying beneath the quilt, and he who uses up his life without achieving fame leaves no more vestige of himself on Earth than smoke in the air or foam upon the water."
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"The devil is not as black as he is painted."
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"Here my powers rest from their high fantasy, but already I could feel my being turned- instinct and intellect balanced equally. as in a wheel whose motion nothing jars- by the Love that moves the Sun and the other stars."
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"My soul tasted that heavenly food, which gives new appetite while it satiates."
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"From a small spark, Great flame has risen."
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"Come, follow me, and leave the world to its babblings."
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"Eternal love made me."
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"Blessed are the peacemakers, For they have freed themselves from sinful wrath."
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"The loser, when a game of dice is done, remains behind reviewing every roll sadly, and sadly wiser, and alone."
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"As flowerlets drooped and puckered in the night turn up to the returning sun and spread their petals wide on his new warmth and light-just so my wilted spirits rose again and such a heat of zeal surged through my veins that I was born anew."
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"He listens well who takes notes."
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"They find seven cornices on which penitent and redeemed sinners are cleansed by the grace of God. On the first cornice, that of Pride, the proud are learning humility: Our Father, dwelling in the Heavens, nowise As circumscribed, but as the things above, Thy first effects, are dearer in Thine eyes, Hallowed Thy name be and the Power thereof, By every creature, as right meet it is We praise the tender effluence of Thy love. Let come to us, let come Thy kingdom's peace."
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"He who awaits the call, but sees the need, Already sets his spirit to refuse it."
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"The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is."
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"How come I never meet any nice girls?"
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"... Nessun maggior dolore Che ricordarsi del tempo felice Nella miseria. (There is no greater pain than to remember a happy time when one is in misery.)"
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