"Follow your own star!"
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"Love is the source of every virtue in you and of every deed which deserves punishment."
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"The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time."
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"One ought to be afraid of nothing other then things possessed of power to do us harm, but things innoucuous need not be feared."
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"As, pricked out with less and greater lights, between the poles of the universe, the Milky Way so gleameth white as to set very sages questioning."
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"Do not desert me when I need you most. And if we can't go on together, let's retrace our steps as quickly as we can."
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"If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought."
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"Unity in wills cannot be unless there is one will dominating and ruling all the rest to oneness... wills of mortals have need of a directive principle... therefore for the well-being of the world, there should be a monarchy."
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"Midway along the journey of our life I woke to find myself in a dark wood, for I had wandered off from the straight path. How hard it is to tell what it was like, this wood of wilderness, savage and stubborn (the thought of it brings back all my old fears), a bitter place! Death could scarce be bitterer. But if I would show the good that came of it I must talk about things other than the good."
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"Consider that this day ne'er dawns again."
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"Sta come torre ferma, che non crolla Giammai la cima per soffiar de' venti. Be steadfast as a tower that doth not bend its stately summit to the tempest's shock."
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"You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs."
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"O you, who in some pretty boat, Eager to listen, have been following Behind my ship, that singing sails along Turn back to look again upon your own shores; Tempt not the deep, lest unawares, In losing me, you yourselves might be lost. The sea I sail has never yet been passed; Minerva breathes, and pilots me Apollo, And Muses nine point out to me the Bears. You other few who have neck uplifted Betimes to the bread of angels upon Which one lives and does not grow sated, Well may you launch your vessel Upon the deep sea."
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"The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all his life drift past him like a dream, and the traces of his memory fade from time like smoke in air, or ripples on a stream."
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"The whole universe is but the footprint of the Divine goodness."
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"Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild."
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"O you proud Christians, wretched souls and small,/ Who by the dim lights of your twisted minds/ Believe you prosper even as you fall,/ Can you not see that we are worms, each one/ Born to become the angelic butterfly/ That flies defenseless to the Judgement Throne?"
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"At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain."
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"No one thinks of how much blood it costs."
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"And we came forth to contemplate the stars."
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