Love, which is quickly kindled in the gentle heart,seized this man for the fair form that wastaken from me, and the manner still hurts me.
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Between his legs were hanging down his entrails; His heart was visible, and the dismal sack that maketh excrement of what is eaten.
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Love, which absolves no beloved one from loving, seized me so strongly with his charm that, as thou seest, it does not leave me yet.
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For always the man in whom thought springs up over thought sets his mark farther off, for the one thought saps the force of the other.
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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.
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With the color that paints the morning and evening clouds that face the sun I saw then the whole heaven suffused.
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Like the lark that soars in the air, first singing, then silent, content with the last sweetness that satiates it, such seemed to me that image, the imprint of the Eternal Pleasure.
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Therefore the sight that is granted to your world penetrates within the Eternal Justice as the eye into the sea; for though from the shore it sees the bottom, in the open sea it does not, and yet the bottom is there but the depth conceals it.
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Thou shalt prove how salt is the taste of another's bread and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.
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The greatest gift that God in His bounty made in creation, and the most conformable to His goodness, and that which He prizes the most, was the freedom of will, with which the creatures with intelligence, they all and they alone, were and are endowed.
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