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The secret of getting things done is to act!

Dante Alighieri

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Dante Alighieri
Age: 56 †
Born: 1265
Born: June 6
Died: 1321
Died: September 22
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Tuscany
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I felt for the tormented whirlwinds Damned for their carnal sins Committed when they let their passions rule their reason.
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Here my powers rest from their high fantasy, but already I could feel my being turned- instinct and intellect balanced equally. as in a wheel whose motion nothing jars- by the Love that moves the Sun and the other stars.
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Eternal love made me.
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e quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle (and thence we came forth to see again the stars)
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It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us.
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Where the way is hardest, there go thou Follow your own path and let people talk.
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It is no learning to understand what you do not retain.
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Be like a solid tower whose brave height remains unmoved by all the winds that blow the man who lets his thoughts be turned aside by one thing or another, will lose sight of his true goal, his mind sapped of its strength.
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