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It is no learning to understand what you do not retain.
Dante Alighieri
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Dante Alighieri
Age: 56 †
Born: 1265
Born: June 6
Died: 1321
Died: September 22
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The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and likewise pain.
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Be like a solid tower whose brave height remains unmoved by all the winds that blow the man who lets his thoughts be turned aside by one thing or another, will lose sight of his true goal, his mind sapped of its strength.
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Love hath so long possessed me for his own And made his lordship so familiar.
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I love to doubt as well as know.
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Pure essence, and pure matter, and the two joined into one were shot forth without flaw, like three bright arrows from a three-string bow.
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There is in hell a place stone-built throughout, Called Malebolge, of an iron hue, Like to the wall that circles it about.
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There is no greater pain than to remember, in our present grief, past happiness.
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I am the way into the city of woe. I am the way to a forsaken people. I am the way into eternal sorrow. Sacred justice moved my architect. I was raised here by divine omnipotence, Primordial love and ultimate intellect. Only those elements time cannot wear Were made before me, and beyond time I stand. Abandon all hope ye who enter here.
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For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.
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They yearn for what they fear for.
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Thus you may understand that love alone is the true seed of every merit in you, and of all acts for which you must atone.
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Where the way is hardest, there go thou Follow your own path and let people talk.
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Lost are we, and are only so far punished, That without hope we live on in desire.
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How come I never meet any nice girls?
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To run over better waters the little vessel of my genius now hoists her sails, as she leaves behind her a sea so cruel.
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O mortal men, be wary of how ye judge.
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At this high moment, ability failed my capacity to describe.
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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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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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Consider the sea's listless chime: Time's self it is, made audible.
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