Horrible my iniquities had been; But Infinite Goodness hath such ample arms, That it receives whatever turns to it.
 Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy (1320). copy citation

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Author Dante Alighieri
Source Divine Comedy
Topic goodness iniquity
Date 1320
Language English
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Note Translanted by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Weblink http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1004/pg1004.html

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“Go to my daughter beautiful, the mother Of Sicily's honour and of Aragon's, And the truth tell her, if aught else be told. After I had my body lacerated By these two mortal stabs, I gave myself Weeping to Him, who willingly doth pardon. Horrible my iniquities had been; But Infinite Goodness hath such ample arms, That it receives whatever turns to it. Had but Cosenza's pastor, who in chase Of me was sent by Clement at that time, In God read understandingly this page, The bones of my dead body still would be At the bridge-head, near unto Benevento, Under the safeguard of the heavy cairn.” source

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