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My course is set for an uncharted sea.

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I wept not — so to stone I grew within.

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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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It may be that a more subtle person would find for this thing a reason of greater subtlety: but such is the reason that I find, and that liketh me best.

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No sorrow is deeper than the remembrance of happiness when in misery.

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At this high moment, ability failed my capacity to describe.

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Imagination, that dost so abstract us That we are not aware, not even when A thousand trumpets sound about our ears!

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Abandon every hope, you who enter.

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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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... 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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He is, most of all, l'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle.

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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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Honor is the greatest poet.

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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 whole universe is but the footprint of the Divine goodness.

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They yearn for what they fear for.

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He whom you see-along the downward arc- was William, and the land that mourns his death, for living Charles and Frederick, now laments; now he has learned how Heaven loves the just ruler, and he would show this outwardly as well, so radiantly visible.

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That which had pleased me once, troubled by spirit.

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There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

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A prayer may chance to rise From one whose heart lives in the grace of God. A prayer from any other is unheeded.

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