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You Shall Find Out 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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You Shall Find Out

Dante Alighieri
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You Shall Find Out 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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Infinite
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Salt
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Heaven
Earth
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Ignorant
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Relaxation
Every Man
The Glory Of Him Who Moves Everything Penetrates Through The Universe, And Is Resplendent In One Part More And In Another Less.
Moving
Glory
Penetrate
Go Right On And Listen As Thou Goest.
Love, That All Gentle Hearts So Quickly Know.
Life
Heart
Gentle
There's Not The Least Thing Can Be Said Or Done, But People Will Talk And Find Fault.
People
Political
Done
Many Have Justice In Their Hearts, But Slowly It Is Let Fly, For It Comes Not Without Council To The Bow.
Heart
Justice
Bows
The Only Fit Reply To A Fit Request Is Silence And The Fact.
Life
Silence
Facts
Lost Are We, And Are Only So Far Punished, That Without Hope We Live On In Desire.
Desire
Lost
Without Hope
This Sorrow Weighs Upon The Melancholy Souls Of Those Who Lived Without Infamy Or Praise.
Life
Soul
Sorrow
One Ought To Be Afraid Of Nothing Other Then Things Possessed Of Power To Do Us Harm, But Things Innoucuous Need Not Be Feared.
Needs
Harm
Ought
All Hope Abandon, Ye Who Enter Here!
Pedestal
Divine Comedy
Inferno
We Have No Hope And Yet We Live In Longing.
Longing
No Hope
I Did Not Die, And Yet I Lost Life’s Breath
Lost
Breaths
Dies
Hope Not Ever To See Heaven. I Come To Lead You To The Other Shore; Into The Eternal Darkness; Into Fire And Ice.
Fire
Ice
Heaven
I Saw Within Its Depth How It Conceives All Things In A Single Volume Bound By Love Of Which The Universe Is The Scattered Leaves.
Depth
Literature
Saws
Still Desiring, We Live Without Hope.
Hope
Without Hope
Stills
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, And Sand Eddies In A Whirlwind.
Pain
Dark
Language Words
The Hottest Places In Hell Are Reserved For Those Who, In Time Of Great Moral Crisis, Maintain Their Neutrality. [this Miserable Mode Maintain The Melancholy Souls Of Those Who Lived Withouten Infamy Or Praise.]
Soul
Neutrality
Moral
Consider That This Day Ne'er Dawns Again.
Dawn
Enthusiasm
This Day
Because There Is No Man Who Can Be True And Just Judge Of Himself, So Much Will Self-love Deceive Him.
True Love
Men
Self
Eternal Love Made Me.
Eternal Love
Creation
Made
Of My Sowing Such Straw I Reap. O Human Folk, Why Set The Heart There Where Exclusion Of Partnership Is Necessary
Heart
Sowing
Exclusion
I Care Not Where My Body May Take Me As Long As My Soul Is Embarked On A Meaningful Journey.
Meaningful
Thinking
Journey
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.
Squares
Sight
Circles
We Are But A Day In This World, And In That Day The Fashion Is Changed A Thousand Times: All Seek Liberty, Yet All Deprive Themselves Of It.
Fashion
Liberty
World
He Listens Well Who Takes Notes.
Divine Comedy
Notes
Wells
For She Doth Make My Veins And Pulses Tremble.
Pulse
Veins
Divine Comedy
Will Cannot Be Quenched Against Its Will.
Willpower
O You, Who In Some Pretty Boat, Eager To Listen, Have Been Following Behind My Ship, That Singing Sails Along Turn Back To Look Again Upon Your Own Shores; Tempt Not The Deep, Lest Unawares, In Losing Me, You Yourselves Might Be Lost. The Sea I Sail Has Never Yet Been Passed; Minerva Breathes, And Pilots Me Apollo, And Muses Nine Point Out To Me The Bears. You Other Few Who Have Neck Uplifted Betimes To The Bread Of Angels Upon Which One Lives And Does Not Grow Sated, Well May You Launch Your Vessel Upon The Deep Sea.
Angel
Sea
Singing
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
Mind
Doe
Heard
I Am Made Of God, Through His Grace. Such That Your Misery Touches Me Not, Nor Does Flame Of That Burning Assail Me.
Flames
Grace
Doe
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