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This mountain is so formed that it is always wearisome when one begins the ascent, but becomes easier the higher one climbs.

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Midway in our life's journey, I went astray from the straight road and woke to find myself alone in a dark wood.

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The mouse had fallen in with evil cats.

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Abandon every hope, you who enter.

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But the stars that marked our starting fall away. We must go deeper into greater pain, for it is not permitted that we stay.

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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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The devil is not as black as he is painted.

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Love insists the loved loves back

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In that book which is my memory, On the first page of the chapter that is the day when I first met you, Appear the words, ‘Here begins a new life’.

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The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. [This miserable mode Maintain the melancholy souls of those Who lived withouten infamy or praise.]

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There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words of pain, tones of anger, voices loud and hoarse, and with these the sound of hands, made a tumult which is whirling through that air forever dark, and sand eddies in a whirlwind.

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No one thinks of how much blood it costs.

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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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We are but a day in this world, and in that day the fashion is changed a thousand times: all seek liberty, yet all deprive themselves of it.

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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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O foolish anxiety of wretched man, how inconclusive are the arguments which make thee beat thy wings below!

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The splendors that belong unto the fame of earth are but a wind, that in the same direction lasts not long.

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Thy soul is by vile fear assailed, which oft so overcasts a man, that he recoils from noblest resolution, like a beast at some false semblance in the twilight gloom.

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A backward glance can often lift the heart.

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... Nessun maggior dolore Che ricordarsi del tempo felice Nella miseria. (There is no greater pain than to remember a happy time when one is in misery.)

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