"Oh foolish desires of mortals! How weak are the reasons that lead us to not take off our flight from the ground."
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"This miserable way is taken by the sorry souls of those who lived without disgrace and without praise. They now commingle with the coward angels, the company of those who were not rebels nor faithful to their God, but stood apart. The heavens, that their beauty not be lessened, have cast them out, nor will deep Hell receive them - even the wicked cannot glory in them."
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"They yearn for what they fear for."
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"For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense."
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"I did not die, and yet I lost life’s breath"
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"As one who sees in dreams and wakes to find the emotional impression of his vision still powerful while its parts fade from his mind - Just such am I, having lost nearly all the vision itself, while in my heart I feel the sweetness of it yet distill and fall."
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"Through me you pass into the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric moved: To rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I shall endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here."
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"I saw a point that shone with light so keen, the eye that sees it cannot bear its blazing; the star that is for us the smallest one would seem a moon if placed beside this point."
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"And here Dante describes an evidently spherical world... "The lamp of the world [the sun] rises to mortals through different passages; but through that which joins four circles with three crosses [the position of the rising sun at the vernal equinox] it issues with a better course and conjoined with better stars, and tempers and stamps the wax of the world more after its own fashion. Although such an outlet had made morning there and evening here, and all the hemisphere there was bright, and the other dark...""
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"A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark."
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"Consider the sea's listless chime: Time's self it is, made audible."
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"O mortal men, be wary of how ye judge."
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"You can stay and die or you can walk your ugly ass back through that gate. It's your call, pal."
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"Still desiring, we live without hope."
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"Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal."
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"Compassion is not a passion; rather a noble disposition of the soul, made ready to receive love, mercy, and other charitable passions."
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"Here let dead poetry rise once more to life."
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"The experience of this sweet life."
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"There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault."
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"There is no greater pain than to remember, in our present grief, past happiness."
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