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The decision of Pope Celestine V to abdicate the Papacy and allow Dante's enemy, Pope Boniface VIII, to gain power.
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The experience of this sweet 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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The night that hides things from us.
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The sword above here smiteth not in hasteNor tardily, howe'er it seem to himWho fearing or desiring waits for it.
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The use of men is like a leafOn bough, which goeth and another cometh.
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Then he turned round unto that bloated lip,And said: "Be silent, thou accursed wolf;Consume within thyself with thine own rage.Not causeless is this journey to the abyss;Thus is it willed on high, where Michael wroughtVengeance upon the proud adultery."
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Thence we came forth to rebehold the stars.
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Therefore the sight that is granted to your world penetrates within the Eternal Justice as the eye into the sea; for though from the shore it sees the bottom, in the open sea it does not, and yet the bottom is there but the depth conceals it.
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These have no longer any hope of death;And this blind life of theirs is so debased,They envious are of every other fate.No fame of them the world permits to be;Misericord and Justice both disdain them.Let us not speak of them, but look, and pass.
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This miserable state is borne by the wretched souls of those who lived without disgrace and without praise.
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Thou hast my heart so with desire disposedTo the adventure, with these words of thine,That to my first intent I have returned.Now go, for one sole will is in us both,Thou Leader, and thou Lord, and Master thou."Thus said I to him; and when he had moved,I entered on the deep and savage way.
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Thou shalt prove 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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Through me the way is to the city dolent;Through me the way is to eternal dole;Through me the way among the people lost.Justice incited my sublime Creator;Created me divine Omnipotence, The highest Wisdom and the primal Love.Before me there were no created things,Only eterne, and I eternal last."All hope abandon, ye who enter in!"
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Time moves and yet we do not notice it.