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Here let dead poetry rise once more to life.

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He is not always at ease who laughs.

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Love kindled by virtue always kindles another, provided that its flame appear outwardly.

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They had their faces twisted toward their haunches and found it necessary to walk backward, because they could not see ahead of them. ...And since he wanted so to see ahead, he looks behind and walks a backward path.

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A backward glance can often lift the heart.

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They find seven cornices on which penitent and redeemed sinners are cleansed by the grace of God. On the first cornice, that of Pride, the proud are learning humility: Our Father, dwelling in the Heavens, nowise As circumscribed, but as the things above, Thy first effects, are dearer in Thine eyes, Hallowed Thy name be and the Power thereof, By every creature, as right meet it is We praise the tender effluence of Thy love. Let come to us, let come Thy kingdom's peace.

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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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Knowledge comes Of learning well retain'd, unfruitful else.

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And as he, who with laboring breath has escaped from the deep to the shore, turns to the perilous waters and gazes.

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Those ancients who in poetry presented the golden age, who sang its happy state, perhaps, in their Parnassus, dreamt this place. Here, mankind's root was innocent; and here were every fruit and never-ending spring; these streams--the nectar of which poets sing.

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Love is the source of every virtue in you and of every deed which deserves punishment.

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These dwell among the blackest souls,loaded down deep by sins of differing types.If you sink far enough,you'll see them all.

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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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That which had pleased me once, troubled by spirit.

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This sorrow weighs upon the melancholy souls of those who lived without infamy or praise.

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All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings it forth, soon slays with parching power.

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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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Love hath so long possessed me for his own And made his lordship so familiar.

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Small projects need much more help than great.

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Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.

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