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, as sand eddies in a whirlpool.

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

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Love and the gracious heart are a single thing… One can no more be without the other Than the reasoning mind without its reason.

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Here one must leave behind all hesitation; here every cowardice must meet its death.

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“Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.”

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“Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.”

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“When I had journeyed half of our life’s way, I found myself within a shadowed forest, for I had lost the path that does not stray.”

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“In that part of the book of my memory, before which very little is written, there is a heading that reads “

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“He listens well who takes notes.”

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“Haste denies all acts their dignity.”

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