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Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.

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I presumed to fix my look on the eternal light so long that I consumed my sight thereon.

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

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As phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall.

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And we came forth to contemplate the stars.

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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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Perceive ye not that we are worms, designed To form the angelic butterfly, that goes To judgment, leaving all defence behind? Why doth your mind take such exalted pose, Since ye, disabled, are as insects, mean As worm which never transformation knows?

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Love insists the loved loves back

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

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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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Blessed are the peacemakers, For they have freed themselves from sinful wrath.

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Because there is no man who can be true and just judge of himself, so much will self-love deceive him.

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Here let dead poetry rise once more to life.

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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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He is not always at ease who laughs.

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Oh blind! Oh ignorant, self-seeking cupidity which spurs us so in the short mortal life and steeps us so through all eternity!

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Abandon hope, all ye who enter here. [Omnes relinquite spes, o vos intrantes]

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I found myself within a forest dark.

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