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Imagination, that dost so abstract us That we are not aware, not even when A thousand trumpets sound about our ears!

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Three sparks - pride, envy, and avarice - have been kindled in all hearts.

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It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us.

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

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Of my sowing such straw I reap. O human folk, why set the heart there where exclusion of partnership is necessary

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Everywhere is here and every when is now.

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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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Be like a solid tower whose brave height remains unmoved by all the winds that blow; the man who lets his thoughts be turned aside by one thing or another, will lose sight of his true goal, his mind sapped of its strength.

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O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?

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

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In that part of the book of my memory before which little can be read, there is a heading, which says: ‘Incipit vita nova: Here begins the new life’.

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The glory of Him who moves everything penetrates through the universe, and is resplendent in one part more and in another less.

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One ought to be afraid of nothing other then things possessed of power to do us harm, but things innoucuous need not be feared.

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He loves but little who can say and count in words, how much he loves.

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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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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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If a thief helps a poor man out of the spoils of his thieving, we must not call that charity.

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In that part of the book of my memory before the which is little that can be read, there is a rubric, saying, Incipit Vita Nova. Under such rubric I find written many things; and among them the words which I purpose to copy into this little book; if not all of them, at the least their substance.

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A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.

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They yearn for what they fear for.

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