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From a small spark, Great flame has risen.
Dante Alighieri
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Dante Alighieri
Age: 56 †
Born: 1265
Born: June 6
Died: 1321
Died: September 22
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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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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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O mortal men, be wary of how ye judge.
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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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The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. [This miserable mode Maintain the melancholy souls of those Who lived withouten infamy or praise.]
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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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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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Deed done is well begun.
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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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