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Dante Alighieri
Age: 56 †
Born: 1265
Born: June 6
Died: 1321
Died: September 22
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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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All of nature is God's art.
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Consider the sea's listless chime: Time's self it is, made audible.
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It may be that a more subtle person would find for this thing a reason of greater subtlety: but such is the reason that I find, and that liketh me best.
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Here let dead poetry rise once more to life.
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He is, most of all, l'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle.
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Love is the source of every virtue in you and of every deed which deserves punishment.
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Infinite goodness has such wide arms.
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...ma gia volgena il mio disio e'l velle si come rota ch'igualmente e mossa, l'amor che move: i sole e l'altre stelle ...as a wheel turns smoothtly, free from jars, my will and my desire were turned by love, The love that moves the sun and the other stars.
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I am searching for that which every man seeks-peace and rest.
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The day that man allows true love to appear, those things which are well made will fall into cofusion and will overturn everything we believe to be right and true.
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If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.
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Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.
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O faithful conscience, delicately pure, how doth a little failing wound thee sore!
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How come I never meet any nice girls?
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You can stay and die or you can walk your ugly ass back through that gate. It's your call, pal.
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Seldom indeed does human virtue rise From trunk to branch.
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At the midpoint on the journey of life, I found myself in a dark forest, for the clear path was lost.
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The greatest gift that God in His bounty made in creation, and the most conformable to His goodness, and that which He prizes the most, was the freedom of will, with which the creatures with intelligence, they all and they alone, were and are endowed.
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Perceive ye not that we are worms, designed To form the angelic butterfly, that goes To judgment, leaving all defence behind? Why doth your mind take such exalted pose, Since ye, disabled, are as insects, mean As worm which never transformation knows?
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