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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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I saw within Its depth how It conceives All things in a single volume bound by Love of which the universe is the scattered leaves.

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What shall one do with the verse, if he knows not That?

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It was the hour of morning, when the sun mounts with those stars that shone with it when God's own love first set in motion those fair things

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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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I am searching for that which every man seeks-peace and rest.

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If anyone should want to know my name, I am called Leah. And I spend all my time weaving garlands of flowers with my fair hands, t o please me when I stand before the mirror; my sister Rachel sits all the day long before her own, and never moves away. She loves to contemplate her lovely eyes; I love to use my hands to adorn myself: her joy is in reflection, mine in act.

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If i thought i was replying to someone who would every return to the world, this flame would cease it's flickering. But since no one has returned from these depths alive, if what I've heard is true, I will answer you without fear of infamy.

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Because your question searches for deep meaning, I shall explain in simple words

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The day that man allows true love to appear, those things which are well made will fall into cofusion and will overturn everything we believe to be right and true.

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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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The heaven that rolls around cries aloud to you while it displays its eternal beauties, and yet your eyes are fixed upon the earth alone.

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

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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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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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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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The man who lies asleep will never waken fame.

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As the geometer intently seeks to square the circle, but he cannot reach, through thought on thought, the principle he needs, so I searched that strange sight.

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Consider the sea's listless chime: Time's self it is, made audible.

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Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.

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