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Dante Alighieri

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Dante Alighieri
Age: 56 †
Born: 1265
Born: June 6
Died: 1321
Died: September 22
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Come, follow me, and leave the world to its babblings.
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The truth thy speech doth show, within my heart reproves the swelling pride.
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You can stay and die or you can walk your ugly ass back through that gate. It's your call, pal.
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I, answering in the end, began: 'Alas, how many yearning thoughts, what great desire, have lead them through such sorrow to their fate?
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When I had journeyed half of our life's way, I found myself within a shadowed forest, for I had lost the path that does not stray.
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The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all his life drift past him like a dream, and the traces of his memory fade from time like smoke in air, or ripples on a stream.
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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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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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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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Where the way is hardest, there go thou Follow your own path and let people talk.
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I saw a point that shone with light so keen, the eye that sees it cannot bear its blazing the star that is for us the smallest one would seem a moon if placed beside this point.
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I did not die, and yet I lost life’s breath
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It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us.
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Those ancients who in poetry presented the golden age, who sang its happy state, perhaps, in their Parnassus, dreamt this place. Here, mankind's root was innocent and here were every fruit and never-ending spring these streams--the nectar of which poets sing.
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If i thought i was replying to someone who would every return to the world, this flame would cease it's flickering. But since no one has returned from these depths alive, if what I've heard is true, I will answer you without fear of infamy.
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Conscience, that boon companion who sets a man free under the strong breastplate of innocence, that bids him on and fear not.
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Mankind, why do ye set your hearts on things That, of necessity, may not be shared?
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No sorrow is deeper than the remembrance of happiness when in misery.
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Abandon hope, all ye who enter here. [Omnes relinquite spes, o vos intrantes]
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O faithful conscience, delicately pure, how doth a little failing wound thee sore!
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