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A backward glance can often lift the heart.

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

Ah! Justice of our God! Who else could stow Such travails new and pains as met my glance!

…all things created have an order in themselves, and this begets the form that lets the universe resemble God.

All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings it forth, soon slays with parching power.

A man's renown is like the hue of grass, Which comes and goes.

A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.

And as he, who with laboring breath has escaped from the deep to the shore, turns to the perilous waters and gazes.

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...

And when he had put his hand on mine with a cheerful look, wherefrom I took courage, he brought me within to the secret things. Here sighs, laments, and deep wailings were resounding through the starless air; wherefore at first I wept thereat. Strange tongues, horrible utterances, words of woe, accents of anger, voices high and faint, and sounds of hands with them, were making a tumult which whirls always in that air forever dark, like the sand when the whirlwind breathes.

A prayer may chance to rise From one whose heart lives in the grace of God. A prayer from any other is unheeded.

A rapid bolt will rend the clouds apart, and every single White be seared by wounds. I tell you this. I want it all to hurt.

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.

As flowerlets drooped and puckered in the night turn up to the returning sun and spread their petals wide on his new warmth and light-just so my wilted spirits rose again and such a heat of zeal surged through my veins that I was born anew.

As little flowers, which the chill of night has bent and huddled, when the white sun strikes, grow straight and open fully on their stems, so did I, too, with my exhausted force.

As one who sees in dreams and wakes to find the emotional impression of his vision still powerful while its parts fade from his mind - Just such am I, having lost nearly all the vision itself, while in my heart I feel the sweetness of it yet distill and fall.

As phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall.

As, pricked out with less and greater lights, between the poles of the universe, the Milky Way so gleameth white as to set very sages questioning.

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.

At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain.

At the midpoint on the journey of life, I found myself in a dark forest, for the clear path was lost.

Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.

Because there is no man who can be true and just judge of himself, so much will self-love deceive him.

Before me things created were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.

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

But already my desire and my will were being turned like a wheel, all at one speed, by the Love which moves the sun and the other stars

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

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

Compassion is not a passion; rather a noble disposition of the soul, made ready to receive love, mercy, and other charitable passions.

Consider that this day ne'er dawns again.

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

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

Deed done is well begun.

Do not desert me when I need you most. And if we can't go on together, let's retrace our steps as quickly as we can.

Doubting charms me not less than knowledge.

Doubting pleases me no less than knowing

Do ye not comprehend that we are worms born to bring forth the angelic butterfly that flieth unto judgment without screen?

Eternal love made me.

...Everything that is, desires to be. As we act, we unfold our being. Enjoyment naturally follows, for a thing desired always brings delight.

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.

Follow your own star!

For she doth make my veins and pulses tremble.

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

From a little spark may burst a flame.

Give unto us this day the daily manna Without which, in this desert where we dwell, He must go backward who would most advance.

Go forth and preach impostures to the world, But give them truth to build on.

Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.

Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.

He is, most of all, l'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle.

He is not always at ease who laughs.