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Stand firm as the tower that never shakes its top whatever wind may blow.

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They had their faces twisted toward their haunches and found it necessary to walk backward, because they could not see ahead of them. ...And since he wanted so to see ahead, he looks behind and walks a backward path.

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Midway upon the journey of our life

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When we encountered a band of souls coming along the barrier, and each was gazing at us in the evening people gaze at one another under the new moon

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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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I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightfoward pathway had been lost. Ah me! How hard a thing is to say, what was this forest savage, rough, and stern, which in the very thought renews the fear. So bitter is it, death is little more.

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

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

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For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.

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I made my own house be my gallows.

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Through me you pass into the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric moved: To rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I shall endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.

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There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault.

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Conscience, that boon companion who sets a man free under the strong breastplate of innocence, that bids him on and fear not.

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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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Come, follow me, and leave the world to its babblings.

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Curb your talent lest it speed where virtue does not guide.

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From a little spark may burst a flame.

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Your fame is as the grass, whose hue comes and goes, and His might withers it by whose power it sprang from the lap of the earth.

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