Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.
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O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!Dante Alighieri
Nature craves love, and then creates love king,
and makes the heart a palace where he'll stay,
perhaps a shorter or a longer day,
breathing quietly, gently slumbering.
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Follow your own star!
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And here Dante describes an evidently spherical world... 'The lamp of the world the sun rises to mortals through different passages but through that which joins four circles with three crosses the position of the rising sun at the vernal equinox it issues with a better course and conjoined with better stars, and tempers and stamps the wax of the world more after its own fashion. Although such an outlet had made morning there and evening here, and all the hemisphere there was bright, and the other dark...'
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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.
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If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.
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