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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

Dante Alighieri

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Dante Alighieri
Age: 56 †
Born: 1265
Born: June 6
Died: 1321
Died: September 22
Author
Intellectual
Lyricist
Philosopher
Poet
Political Theorist
Politician
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Florence
Tuscany
Dante
Durante degli Alighieri
Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri
Open
Heard
Beatrice
Within
Disclose
Doe
Hears
Nothing
Learns
Mind
Fast
Hold
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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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If you're asking for a date, forget it. 'Cause I make it a point not to go out with women who shoot me in the head!
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And as he, who with laboring breath has escaped from the deep to the shore, turns to the perilous waters and gazes.
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Infinite goodness has such wide arms.
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The truth thy speech doth show, within my heart reproves the swelling pride.
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Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.
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That which had pleased me once, troubled by spirit.
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To run over better waters the little vessel of my genius now hoists her sails, as she leaves behind her a sea so cruel.
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I, answering in the end, began: 'Alas, how many yearning thoughts, what great desire, have lead them through such sorrow to their fate?
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Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.
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Through me the way into the suffering city, Through me the way to the eternal pain, Through me the way that runs among the lost. Justice urged on my high artificer My maker was divine authority, The highest wisdom, and the primal love. Before me nothing but eternal things were made, And I endure eternally. Abandon every hope, ye who enter here.
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The only fit reply to a fit request is silence and the fact.
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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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Mankind, why do ye set your hearts on things That, of necessity, may not be shared?
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I love to doubt as well as know.
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The human race finds itself in a better situation when it has the higher level of freedom.
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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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How come I never meet any nice girls?
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He who awaits the call, but sees the need, Already sets his spirit to refuse it.
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Eternal love made me.
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