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Dante Alighieri
Age: 56 †
Born: 1265
Born: June 6
Died: 1321
Died: September 22
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Thou shall know by experience how salt the savor is of others' bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's stairs.
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O mortal men, be wary of how ye judge.
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O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!
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Love kindled by virtue always kindles another, provided that its flame appear outwardly.
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A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.
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In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray, Gone from the path direct.
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All of nature is God's art.
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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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To get back up to the shining world from there My guide and I went into that hidden tunnel, And Following its path, we took no care To rest, but climbed: he first, then I-so far, through a round aperture I saw appear Some of the beautiful things that Heaven bears, Where we came forth, and once more saw the stars.
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Do not be afraid our fate Cannot be taken from us it is a gift.
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I presumed to fix my look on the eternal light so long that I consumed my sight thereon.
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To course across more kindly waters now my talent's little vessel lifts her sails, leaving behind herself a sea so cruel and what I sing will be that second kingdom, in which the human soul is cleansed of sin, becoming worthy of ascent to Heaven.
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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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The truth thy speech doth show, within my heart reproves the swelling pride.
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Love insists the loved loves back
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Will cannot be quenched against its will.
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Before me things created were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.
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He is, most of all, l'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle.
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The only fit reply to a fit request is silence and the fact.
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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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