What a kind, loving, compassionate injunction to Dante. Keep it in mind if you find yourself berating yourself. 

And if you are experiencing grief, I hope you find the means to unload it soon. 

“Much greater faults than yours are washed away

By much less shame,” my Master said.  “Unload

Your heart of all grief…” 

Source: Dante, The Divine Comedy (Inferno, Canto 30), trans. Clive James (New York: Liveright Publishing, 2013), p. 148-49

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