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Fate's arrow, when expected, travels slow.
Dante Alighieri
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Dante Alighieri
Age: 56 †
Born: 1265
Born: June 6
Died: 1321
Died: September 22
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O how far remov'd, Predestination! is thy foot from such As see not the First Cause entire: and ye, O mortal men! be wary how ye judge: For we, who see the Maker, know not yet The number of the chosen and esteem Such scantiness of knowledge our delight: For all good is, in that primal good, Concentrate and God's will and ours are one.
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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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Love, that exempts no one beloved from loving, seized me with pleasure of this man so strongly, that, as thou seest, it doth not yet desert me.
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Love hath so long possessed me for his own And made his lordship so familiar.
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Seldom indeed does human virtue rise From trunk to branch.
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Three sparks - pride, envy, and avarice - have been kindled in all hearts.
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The truth thy speech doth show, within my heart reproves the swelling pride.
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He loves but little who can say and count in words, how much he loves.
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Nothing which is harmonized by the bond of the Muse can be changed from its own to another language without destroying its sweetness
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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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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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Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.
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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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It is no learning to understand what you do not retain.
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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 listens well who takes notes.
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Astrology, the noblest of sciences.
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He who awaits the call, but sees the need, Already sets his spirit to refuse it.
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