"The heavens call to you, and circle about you, displaying to you their eternal splendors, and your eye gazes only to earth."
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"It is no learning to understand what you do not retain."
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"Thus you may understand that love alone is the true seed of every merit in you, and of all acts for which you must atone."
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"Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows."
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"The greatest gift that God in His bounty made in creation, and the most conformable to His goodness, and that which He prizes the most, was the freedom of will, with which the creatures with intelligence, they all and they alone, were and are endowed."
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"A backward glance can often lift the heart."
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"Justice does not descend from its own pinnacle."
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"Now you know how much my love for you burns deep in me when I forget about our emptiness, and deal with shadows as with solid things."
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"For she doth make my veins and pulses tremble."
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"The infernal storm, eternal in its rage, sweeps and drives the spirits with its blast; it whirls them, lashing them with punishment. When they are swept back past their place of judgment then come the shrieks, laments, and anguished cries; there they blaspheme God's almighty power."
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"No sadness is greater than in misery to rehearse memories of joy."
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"O power of fantasy that steals our minds from things outside, to leave us unaware, although a thousand trumpets may blow loud--what stirs you if the senses show you nothing? Light stirs you, formed in Heaven, by itself, or by His will Who sends it down to us."
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"So that the Universe felt love, by which, as somebelieve, the world has many times been turned to chaos. And at that moment this ancient rock, here and elsewhere, fell broken into pieces."
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"Pure essence, and pure matter, and the two joined into one were shot forth without flaw, like three bright arrows from a three-string bow."
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"If anyone should want to know my name, I am called Leah. And I spend all my time weaving garlands of flowers with my fair hands, t o please me when I stand before the mirror; my sister Rachel sits all the day long before her own, and never moves away. She loves to contemplate her lovely eyes; I love to use my hands to adorn myself: her joy is in reflection, mine in act."
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"In each fire there is a spirit; Each one is wrapped in what is burning him."
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"Honor is the greatest poet."
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"To get back up to the shining world from there My guide and I went into that hidden tunnel, And Following its path, we took no care To rest, but climbed: he first, then I-so far, through a round aperture I saw appear Some of the beautiful things that Heaven bears, Where we came forth, and once more saw the stars."
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"And when he had put his hand on mine with a cheerful look, wherefrom I took courage, he brought me within to the secret things. Here sighs, laments, and deep wailings were resounding through the starless air; wherefore at first I wept thereat. Strange tongues, horrible utterances, words of woe, accents of anger, voices high and faint, and sounds of hands with them, were making a tumult which whirls always in that air forever dark, like the sand when the whirlwind breathes."
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"Here we find the moat of thieves. And just as a lizard, with a quick, slick slither, Flicks across the highway from hedge to hedge, Fleeter than a flash, in the battering dog-day weather, A fiery little monster, livid, in a rage, Black as any peppercorn, came and made a dart At the guts of the others, and leaping to engage One of the pair, it pierced him at the part Through which we first draw food; then loosed its grip And fell before him, outstretched and apart."
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