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That which had pleased me once, troubled by spirit.
Dante Alighieri
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Dante Alighieri
Age: 56 †
Born: 1265
Born: June 6
Died: 1321
Died: September 22
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This sorrow weighs upon the melancholy souls of those who lived without infamy or praise.
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There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep strange tongues, horrible language, words of pain, tones of anger, voices loud and hoarse, and with these the sound of hands, made a tumult which is whirling through that air forever dark, and sand eddies in a whirlwind.
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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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From a small spark, Great flame has risen.
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I am searching for that which every man seeks-peace and rest.
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O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!
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Here my powers rest from their high fantasy, but already I could feel my being turned- instinct and intellect balanced equally. as in a wheel whose motion nothing jars- by the Love that moves the Sun and the other stars.
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O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?
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He is not always at ease who laughs.
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