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Follow your own star!

Dante Alighieri

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Dante Alighieri
Age: 56 †
Born: 1265
Born: June 6
Died: 1321
Died: September 22
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Intellectual
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Florence
Tuscany
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Durante degli Alighieri
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Midway upon the journey of our life
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Oh foolish desires of mortals! How weak are the reasons that lead us to not take off our flight from the ground.
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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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Small projects need much more help than great.
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Come, follow me, and leave the world to its babblings.
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Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.
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No one thinks of how much blood it costs.
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Mankind is at its best when it is most free. This will be clear if we grasp the principle of liberty. We must recall that the basic principle is freedom of choice, which saying many have on their lips but few in their minds.
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Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.
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Mankind, why do ye set your hearts on things That, of necessity, may not be shared?
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They had their faces twisted toward their haunches and found it necessary to walk backward, because they could not see ahead of them. ...And since he wanted so to see ahead, he looks behind and walks a backward path.
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It is no learning to understand what you do not retain.
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Seldom indeed does human virtue rise From trunk to branch.
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As one who sees in dreams and wakes to find the emotional impression of his vision still powerful while its parts fade from his mind - Just such am I, having lost nearly all the vision itself, while in my heart I feel the sweetness of it yet distill and fall.
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There is in hell a place stone-built throughout, Called Malebolge, of an iron hue, Like to the wall that circles it about.
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Will cannot be quenched against its will.
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I did not die, and yet I lost life’s breath
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Oh blind! Oh ignorant, self-seeking cupidity which spurs us so in the short mortal life and steeps us so through all eternity!
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Love, who insists that love shall mutual be, Link'd me to him with charm strong as our fates Even now it leaves me not, as thou dost see.
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...Everything that is, desires to be. As we act, we unfold our being. Enjoyment naturally follows, for a thing desired always brings delight.
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