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The only fit reply to a fit request is silence and the fact.
Dante Alighieri
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Dante Alighieri
Age: 56 †
Born: 1265
Born: June 6
Died: 1321
Died: September 22
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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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Love, that all gentle hearts so quickly know.
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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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The well heeded well heard.
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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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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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Oh blind! Oh ignorant, self-seeking cupidity which spurs us so in the short mortal life and steeps us so through all eternity!
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He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.
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Do not desert me when I need you most. And if we can't go on together, let's retrace our steps as quickly as we can.
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Here let dead poetry rise once more to life.
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The greatest gift that God in His bounty made in creation, and the most conformable to His goodness, and that which He prizes the most, was the freedom of will, with which the creatures with intelligence, they all and they alone, were and are endowed.
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He whom you see-along the downward arc- was William, and the land that mourns his death, for living Charles and Frederick, now laments now he has learned how Heaven loves the just ruler, and he would show this outwardly as well, so radiantly visible.
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Love, who insists that love shall mutual be, Link'd me to him with charm strong as our fates Even now it leaves me not, as thou dost see.
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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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Fate's arrow, when expected, travels slow.
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Blessed are the peacemakers, For they have freed themselves from sinful wrath.
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Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
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A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.
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So that the Universe felt love, by which, as somebelieve, the world has many times been turned to chaos. And at that moment this ancient rock, here and elsewhere, fell broken into pieces.
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Abandon hope, all ye who enter here. [Omnes relinquite spes, o vos intrantes]
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