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View Quote To a greater power and to a better nature you, free, are subject, and that creates the mind in you which the heavens have not in their charge. Therefore if the present world goes astray, in you is the cause, in you let it be sought.
View Quote To be rude to him was courtesy.
View Quote To run over better waters the little vessel of my genius now hoists her sails, as she leaves behind her a sea so cruel.
View Quote To the right hand I turned, and fixed my mindUpon the other pole, and saw four starsNe'er seen before save by the primal people.
View Quote True is it, that upon the verge I found me⁠Of the abysmal valley dolorous,⁠That gathers thunder of infinite ululations.Obscure, profound it was, and nebulous,⁠So that by fixing on its depths my sight⁠Nothing whatever I discerned therein.
View Quote Unless, before then, the prayer assist me which rises from a heart that lives in grace: what avails the other, which is not heard in heaven?
View Quote Vain thought thou entertainest;⁠The undiscerning life which made them sordid⁠Now makes them unto all discernment dim.
View Quote Variant translation (Longfellow):I came into a place mute of all light,⁠Which bellows as the sea does in a tempest,⁠If by opposing winds 't is combated.
View Quote Variant Translation: 'I am the way into the city of woe.I am the way to a forsaken people.I am the way into eternal sorrow.Sacred justice moved my architect.I was raised here by divine omnipotence, primordial love and ultimate intellectOnly those elements time cannot wear are beyond me,and beyond time I stand.Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here.'
View Quote Variant translation: 'Through me the way to the suffering city;Through me the everlasting pain;Through me the way that runs among the Lost.Justice urged on my exalted Creator:Divine Power made me,The Supreme Wisdom and the Primal Love.Nothing was made before me but eternal thingsAnd I endure eternally.Abandon all hope - You Who Enter Here.'
View Quote Variant Translation: Through me you go to the grief wracked city;Through me you go to everlasting pain;Through me you go a pass among lost souls.Justice inspired my exalted Creator:I am a creature of the Holiest Power,of Wisdom in the Highest and of Primal Love.Nothing till I was made was made, only eternal beings.And I endure eternally.Abandon all hope — Ye Who Enter Here
View Quote Variant translation:Get up! breathe with the soul,for it is brave in every battle,and will always win,unless the heavy body be its grave.
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View Quote Virtue with poverty didst thou preferTo the possession of great wealth with vice.
View Quote Weeping itself there does not let them weep,And grief that finds a barrier in the eyesTurns itself inward to increase the anguish.