"To run over better waters the little vessel of my genius now hoists her sails, as she leaves behind her a sea so cruel."
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"O foolish anxiety of wretched man, how inconclusive are the arguments which make thee beat thy wings below!"
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"My course is set for an uncharted sea."
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"All hope abandon, ye who enter here!"
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"He is, most of all, l'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle."
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"In that part of the book of my memory before the which is little that can be read, there is a rubric, saying, Incipit Vita Nova. Under such rubric I find written many things; and among them the words which I purpose to copy into this little book; if not all of them, at the least their substance."
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"This sorrow weighs upon the melancholy souls of those who lived without infamy or praise."
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"Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction."
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"Love and the gentle heart are but the same thing."
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"I love to doubt as well as know."
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"This mountain is so formed that it is always wearisome when one begins the ascent, but becomes easier the higher one climbs."
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"Reason flies When following the senses, on clipped wings."
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"Infinite goodness has such wide arms."
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"I wept not — so to stone I grew within."
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"Doubting charms me not less than knowledge."
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"I am made of God, through his Grace. Such that your misery touches me not, Nor does flame of that burning assail me."
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"I saw within Its depth how It conceives All things in a single volume bound by Love of which the universe is the scattered leaves."
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"Deed done is well begun."
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"The human race is in the best condition when it has the greatest degree of liberty."
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"Three sparks - pride, envy, and avarice - have been kindled in all hearts."
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