A quotation from Thomas a Kempis:

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For man proposes but God disposes. The path a person takes does not lie within himself.
[Nam homo proponit, sed Deus disponit, nec est in homine via ejus.]
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https://wist.info/thomas-a-kempis/11953/

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A quotation from Swift, Jonathan:

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Although reason were intended by Providence to govern our passions; yet it seems that in two points of the greatest moment to the being and continuance of the world, God has intended our passions to prevail over reason. The first is, the propagation of our species; since no wise man ever married from the dictates of reason…
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https://wist.info/swift-jonathan/59466/

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A quotation from Swift, Jonathan:

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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.
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https://wist.info/swift-jonathan/57784/

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A quotation from Dante Alighieri:

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          Charon, bite back your spleen:
this has been willed where what is willed must be,
and is not yours to ask what it may mean.
          [Caron, non ti crucciare:
vuolsi così colà dove si puote
ciò che si vuole, e più non dimandare]
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https://wist.info/dante-alighieri-poet/57483/

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