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Dante Alighieri
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Dante Alighieri
Age: 56 †
Born: 1265
Born: June 6
Died: 1321
Died: September 22
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Open your mind to what I shall disclose, and hold it fast within you he who hears, but does not hold what he has heard, learns nothing. Beatrice - Canto V 40-42
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Go forth and preach impostures to the world, But give them truth to build on.
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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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He who awaits the call, but sees the need, Already sets his spirit to refuse it.
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I saw a point that shone with light so keen, the eye that sees it cannot bear its blazing the star that is for us the smallest one would seem a moon if placed beside this point.
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Thus you may understand that love alone is the true seed of every merit in you, and of all acts for which you must atone.
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O foolish anxiety of wretched man, how inconclusive are the arguments which make thee beat thy wings below!
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The mouse had fallen in with evil cats.
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No one thinks of how much blood it costs.
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Do not desert me when I need you most. And if we can't go on together, let's retrace our steps as quickly as we can.
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It is no learning to understand what you do not retain.
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The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all his life drift past him like a dream, and the traces of his memory fade from time like smoke in air, or ripples on a stream.
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The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. [This miserable mode Maintain the melancholy souls of those Who lived withouten infamy or praise.]
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I found myself within a forest dark.
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In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.
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Give unto us this day the daily manna Without which, in this desert where we dwell, He must go backward who would most advance.
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I am searching for that which every man seeks-peace and rest.
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The well heeded well heard.
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Love is the source of every virtue in you and of every deed which deserves punishment.
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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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