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Deed done is well begun.
Dante Alighieri
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Dante Alighieri
Age: 56 †
Born: 1265
Born: June 6
Died: 1321
Died: September 22
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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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Three sparks - pride, envy, and avarice - have been kindled in all hearts.
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He loves but little who can say and count in words, how much he loves.
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Curb your talent lest it speed where virtue does not guide.
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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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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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Three things remain with us from paradise: stars, flowers and children.
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All of nature is God's art.
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Often a retrospect delights the mind.
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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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Give unto us this day the daily manna Without which, in this desert where we dwell, He must go backward who would most advance.
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Here let dead poetry rise once more to life.
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That which had pleased me once, troubled by spirit.
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How come I never meet any nice girls?
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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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Go forth and preach impostures to the world, But give them truth to build on.
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There is a gentle thought that often springs to life in me, because it speaks of you.
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Will cannot be quenched against its will.
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Love hath so long possessed me for his own And made his lordship so familiar.
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There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault.
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