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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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The three Divine are in this hierarchy, First the Dominions, and the Virtues next;
And the third order is that of the Powers. The in the dances twain penultimate
The Principalities and Archangels wheel; The last is wholly of angelic sports.
These orders upward all of them are gazing,
And downward so prevail, that unto God
They all attracted are and all attract.
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Do ye not comprehend that we are worms born to bring forth the angelic butterfly that flieth unto judgment without screen?
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Their eyes seem'd rings from whence the gems were gone.
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Do not rest in so profound a doubt except she tell it thee, who shall be a light between truth and intellect. I know not if thou understand: I speak of Beatrice.
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Less than a drop of blood remains in me that does not tremble; I recognize the signals of the ancient flame.
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The day that man allows true love to appear, those things which are well made will fall into confusion and will overturn everything we believe to be right and true.
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A Galeotto [a pander] was the book and writer too: that day we did not read any more.
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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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Love, that exempts no one beloved from loving, seized me with pleasure of this man so strongly, that, as thou seest, it doth not yet desert me.
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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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Pride, Envy, and Avarice are the three sparks that have set these hearts on fire.
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Thy soul is by vile fear assailed, which oft so overcasts a man, that he recoils from noblest resolution, like a beast at some false semblance in the twilight gloom.
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But when thou shalt be in the sweet world, I pray thee bring me to men's memory.
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He who shall never be divided from me kissed my mouth all trembling.
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Thou shalt prove how salt is the taste of another's bread and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.
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Necessity brings him [Dante] here, not pleasure.
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In that part of the book of my memory before which is little that can be read, there is a rubric, saying, "Incipit Vita Nova [The new life begins]."
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And as he, who with laboring breath has escaped from the deep to the shore, turns to the perilous waters and gazes.
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In his arms, my lady lay asleep, wrapped in a veil. He woke her then and trembling and obedient she ate that burning heart out of his hand. Weeping I saw him then depart from me.
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Everyone confusedly conceives of a good in which the mind may be at rest, and desires it; wherefore everyone strives to attain it.
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Midway along the journey of our life I woke to find myself in a dark wood, for I had wandered off from the straight path. How hard it is to tell what it was like, this wood of wilderness, savage and stubborn (the thought of it brings back all my old fears), a bitter place! Death could scarce be bitterer. But if I would show the good that came of it I must talk about things other than the good.
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But so much the more malign and wild does the ground become with bad seed and untilled, as it has the more of good earthly vigor.
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If I thought my answer were to one who would ever return to the world, this flame should stay without another movement; but since none ever returned alive from this depth, if what I hear is true, I answer thee without fear of infamy.
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To get back up to the shining world from there My guide and I went into that hidden tunnel, And Following its path, we took no care To rest, but climbed: he first, then I-so far, through a round aperture I saw appear Some of the beautiful things that Heaven bears, Where we came forth, and once more saw the stars.
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Dante Alighieri
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Born:
May, 1265
Died:
September 14, 1321
(aged 56)
Bio:
Durante degli Alighieri, simply called Dante, was a major Italian poet of the late Middle Ages.
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