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Dante Alighieri
Age: 56 †
Born: 1265
Born: June 6
Died: 1321
Died: September 22
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O power of fantasy that steals our minds from things outside, to leave us unaware, although a thousand trumpets may blow loud--what stirs you if the senses show you nothing? Light stirs you, formed in Heaven, by itself, or by His will Who sends it down to us.
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Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.
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At this high moment, ability failed my capacity to describe.
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Do not be afraid our fate Cannot be taken from us it is a gift.
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All of nature is God's art.
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I care not where my body may take me as long as my soul is embarked on a meaningful journey.
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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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As fall the light autumnal leaves, one still the other following, till the bough strews all its honors on the earth below.
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The only fit reply to a fit request is silence and the fact.
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A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.
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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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Small projects need much more help than great.
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Follow your own star!
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Love, that all gentle hearts so quickly know.
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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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I presumed to fix my look on the eternal light so long that I consumed my sight thereon.
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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 made of God, through his Grace. Such that your misery touches me not, Nor does flame of that burning assail me.
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As the geometer intently seeks to square the circle, but he cannot reach, through thought on thought, the principle he needs, so I searched that strange sight.
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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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