Love is the source of every virtue in you and of every deed which deserves punishment.
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.
For she doth make my veins and pulses tremble.
He is not always at ease who laughs.
Before me things created were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.
Imagination, that dost so abstract us That we are not aware, not even when A thousand trumpets sound about our ears!
The mouse had fallen in with evil cats.
Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.
But if, as morning rises, dreams are true.
No one thinks of how much blood it costs.
Infinite goodness has such wide arms.
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.
Open your mind to what I shall disclose, and hold it fast within you; he who hears, but does not hold what he has heard, learns nothing. Beatrice - Canto V 40-42
Seldom indeed does human virtue rise From trunk to branch.
Unity in wills cannot be unless there is one will dominating and ruling all the rest to oneness... wills of mortals have need of a directive principle... therefore for the well-being of the world, there should be a monarchy.
For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.
Justice does not descend from its own pinnacle.
It is no learning to understand what you do not retain.
There is no greater pain than to remember, in our present grief, past happiness.
In His will, our peace.
The greatest gift that God in His bounty made in creation, and the most conformable to His goodness, and that which He prizes the most, was the freedom of will, with which the creatures with intelligence, they all and they alone, were and are endowed.
Now you know how much my love for you burns deep in me when I forget about our emptiness, and deal with shadows as with solid things.
They find seven cornices on which penitent and redeemed sinners are cleansed by the grace of God. On the first cornice, that of Pride, the proud are learning humility: Our Father, dwelling in the Heavens, nowise As circumscribed, but as the things above, Thy first effects, are dearer in Thine eyes, Hallowed Thy name be and the Power thereof, By every creature, as right meet it is We praise the tender effluence of Thy love. Let come to us, let come Thy kingdom's peace.
Deed done is well begun.
O you proud Christians, wretched souls and small,/ Who by the dim lights of your twisted minds/ Believe you prosper even as you fall,/ Can you not see that we are worms, each one/ Born to become the angelic butterfly/ That flies defenseless to the Judgement Throne?
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