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I saw within Its depth how It conceives all things in a single volume bound by Love, of which the universe is the scattered leaves.
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Mankind is at its best when it is most free. This will be clear if we grasp the principle of liberty. We must recall that the basic principle is freedom of choice, which saying many have on their lips but few in their minds.
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O human race born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou fall.
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Into the eternal darkness, into fire and into ice.
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With the color that paints the morning and evening clouds that face the sun I saw then the whole heaven suffused.
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Open your mind to what I shall disclose, and hold it fast within you; he who hears, but does not hold what he has heard, learns nothing.
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O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!
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At once I understood, and I was sure this was that sect of evil souls who were hateful to God and to His enemies.
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The more a thing is perfect, the more if feels pleasure and pain.
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"Why is thy mind so entangled," said the Master [Virgil], "that thou slackenest thy pace? What is it to thee what they whisper there? Come after me and let the people talk. Stand like a firm tower that never shakes its top for blast of wind."
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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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One ought to be afraid of nothing other then things possessed of power to do us harm, but things innocuous need not be feared.
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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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Strange lamentations assailed me that had their shafts barbed with pity.
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If anyone should want to know my name, I am called Leah. And I spend all my time weaving garlands of flowers with my fair hands, t o please me when I stand before the mirror; my sister Rachel sits all the day long before her own, and never moves away. She loves to contemplate her lovely eyes; I love to use my hands to adorn myself: her joy is in reflection, mine in act.
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Ye that are of good understanding, note the doctrine that is hidden under the veil of the strange verses!
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Through me the way into the suffering city, Through me the way to the eternal pain, Through me the way that runs among the lost. Justice urged on my high artificer; My maker was divine authority, The highest wisdom, and the primal love. Before me nothing but eternal things were made, And I endure eternally. Abandon every hope, ye who enter here.
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What sweet thoughts, what longing led them to the woeful pass.
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"The Royal Banners are coming forth — those of the master of hell — towards us now; so look ahead and see," my master said, "whether you can discern him."
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To a greater force, and to a better nature, you, free, are subject, and that creates the mind in you, which the heavens have not in their charge. Therefore if the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.
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Rarely does human worth rise through the branches, and this He wills also who gives it, that it may be sought from Him.
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And thence we came forth, to see again the stars.
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For to lose time is most displeasing to him who knows most.
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So my conscience chide me not, I am ready for Fortune as she wills.
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Between his legs were hanging down his entrails; His heart was visible, and the dismal sack that maketh excrement of what is eaten.
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Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
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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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