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Often a retrospect delights the mind.
Dante Alighieri
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Dante Alighieri
Age: 56 †
Born: 1265
Born: June 6
Died: 1321
Died: September 22
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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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I am searching for that which every man seeks-peace and rest.
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Perceive ye not that we are worms, designed To form the angelic butterfly, that goes To judgment, leaving all defence behind? Why doth your mind take such exalted pose, Since ye, disabled, are as insects, mean As worm which never transformation knows?
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My soul tasted that heavenly food, which gives new appetite while it satiates.
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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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As little flowers, which the chill of night has bent and huddled, when the white sun strikes, grow straight and open fully on their stems, so did I, too, with my exhausted force.
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If your world isn't right, the cause is in you.
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The only fit reply to a fit request is silence and the fact.
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The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.
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These dwell among the blackest souls,loaded down deep by sins of differing types.If you sink far enough,you'll see them all.
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