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The purpose of the whole [the Comedy] and of this portion [the Paradiso] is to remove those who are living in this life from the state of wretchedness, and to lead them to the state of blessedness.

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

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Here we find the moat of thieves. And just as a lizard, with a quick, slick slither, Flicks across the highway from hedge to hedge, Fleeter than a flash, in the battering dog-day weather, A fiery little monster, livid, in a rage, Black as any peppercorn, came and made a dart At the guts of the others, and leaping to engage One of the pair, it pierced him at the part Through which we first draw food; then loosed its grip And fell before him, outstretched and apart.

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Nothing which is harmonized by the bond of the Muse can be changed from its own to another language without destroying its sweetness

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

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I, answering in the end, began: 'Alas, how many yearning thoughts, what great desire, have lead them through such sorrow to their fate?

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That with him were, what time the Love Divine

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Oh foolish desires of mortals! How weak are the reasons that lead us to not take off our flight from the ground.

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Honor is the greatest poet.

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No one thinks of how much blood it costs.

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You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.

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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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It is no learning to understand what you do not retain.

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Consider that this day ne'er dawns again.

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They yearn for what they fear for.

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For she doth make my veins and pulses tremble.

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

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

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

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