The traveller, he, whom sea or mountain sunder From his own… - Ludovico Ariosto

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The traveller, he, whom sea or mountain sunder
From his own country, sees things strange and new;
That the misjudging vulgar, which lies under
The mist of ignorance, esteems untrue.

Ludovico Ariosto

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Ludovico Ariosto (8 September 1474 – 6 July 1533) was an Italian poet, author of the epic poem Orlando Furioso (1516), "Orlando Enraged".

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'Tis our bent
To sin, and thine to pardon who repent.

Blind when I gave him such a trust, nor saw
How easily the fire consumes the straw.

Behold the state of man's unstable mind,
Still prone to change with every changing wind!
All our resolves are weak, but weakest prove
Where sprung from sense of disappointed love.

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