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Beauty awakens the soul to act.

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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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Open your mind to what I shall disclose, and hold it fast within you; he who hears, but does not hold what he has heard, learns nothing. Beatrice - Canto V 40-42

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Many have justice in their hearts, but slowly it is let fly, for it comes not without council to the bow.

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Astrology, the noblest of sciences.

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From there we came outside and saw the stars

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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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When I had journeyed half of our life's way, I found myself within a shadowed forest, for I had lost the path that does not stray.

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

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The human race is in the best condition when it has the greatest degree of liberty.

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Love, that all gentle hearts so quickly know.

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If you give people light, they will find their own way.

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O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!

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The well heeded well heard.

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The truth thy speech doth show, within my heart reproves the swelling pride.

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The whole universe is but the footprint of the Divine goodness.

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Justice divine has weighed: the doom is clear. All hope renounce, ye lost, who enter here.

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Fame is not won on downy plumes nor under canopies; the man who consumes his days without obtaining it leaves such mark of himself on earth as smoke in air or foam on water.

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Behold a God more powerful than I who comes to rule over me.

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Mankind, why do ye set your hearts on things That, of necessity, may not be shared?

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