Quote by Dante Alighieri
Avarice, envy, pride,Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts o

Avarice, envy, pride,
Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all
On Fire. – Dante Alighieri

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The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. – Dante Alighieri

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At last is Hector stretchd upon the plain,
Who feard no vengeance for Patroclus slain:
Then, Prince! You should have feard, what now you feel;
Achilles absent was Achilles still:
Yet a short space the great avenger stayed,
Then low in dust thy strength and glory laid. – Homer

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This lifes dim windows of the soul
Distorts the heavens from pole to pole
And leads you to believe a lie
When you see with, not through, the eye. – William Blake

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In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world; the worlds Priest; — guiding it, like a sacred Pillar of Fire, in its dark pilgrimage through the waste of Time. – Thomas Carlyle

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If the radiance of a thousand suns
Were to burst at once into the sky
That would be like the splendor of the Mighty one —
I am become Death,
The shatterer of Worlds. – Hindu Spiritual

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Literary

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