“O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is little fault!”
Dante Alighieri book Purgatorio
Canto III, lines 8–9 (tr. C. E. Norton).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Purgatorio
“Perfect little body, without fault or stain on thee,
With promise of strength and manhood full and fair!”
On a Dead Child http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/2930.html, st. 1 (1890). <br class="br">Poetry
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Context: I maintain that all the evil influences that I can trace have been internal and not external, you know what I mean—that I have the capacity of being more wicked than any example that man could set me, and that if I escape, it is only by God's grace helping me to get rid of myself, partially in science, more completely in society, — but not perfectly except by committing myself to God as the instrument of His will, not doubtfully, but in the certain hope that that Will will be plain enough at the proper time. Nevertheless, you see things from the outside directly, and I only by reflexion, so I hope that you will not tell me you have little fault to find with me, without finding that little and communicating it.
