You were not made to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
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You were not made to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
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Your will is free, upright, and whole; henceforth, you act according to its discretion. Therefore, I crown and mitre you over yourself.
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And just as someone who, with laboring breath, has escaped the sea to reach the shore, turns back to gaze at the perilous waters.
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Ah, how hard it is to describe this rough and harsh and dense forest, which renews fear in my thoughts!
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And as the starlings are borne on their wings, in the cold season, in a broad and full troop, so does that blast bear the evil spirits along.
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And I: 'Master, what is so heavy that it makes them lament so strongly?'.
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There the dreadful Erichtho writhed, who summoned back the shadows to their bodies.
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You will taste how salty another's bread is, and how hard it is to tread another's stairs up and down.
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Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.
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Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove.
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