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If a thief helps a poor man out of the spoils of his thieving, we must not call that charity.
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Pure and disposed to mount unto the stars.
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Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
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Heaven, to keep its beauty, cast them out, but even Hell itself would not receive them for fear the wicked there might glory over them.
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The loser, when a game of dice is done,
remains behind reviewing every roll
sadly, and sadly wiser, and alone.
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Therefore the sight that is granted to your world penetrates within the Eternal Justice as the eye into the sea; for though from the shore it sees the bottom, in the open sea it does not, and yet the bottom is there but the depth conceals it.
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Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master. Thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.
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The mind which is created quick to love, is responsive to everything that is pleasing, soon as by pleasure it is awakened into activity. Your apprehensive faculty draws an impression from a real object, and unfolds it within you, so that it makes the mind turn thereto. And if, being turned, it inclines towards it, that inclination is love; that is nature, which through pleasure is bound anew within you.
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The Infinite Goodness has such wide arms that it takes whatever turns to it.
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There is no greater pain than to remember a happy time when one is in misery.
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Like the lark that soars in the air, first singing, then silent, content with the last sweetness that satiates it, such seemed to me that image, the imprint of the Eternal Pleasure.
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As, pricked out with less and greater lights, between the poles of the universe, the Milky Way so gleameth white as to set very sages questioning.
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In each fire there is a spirit; Each one is wrapped in what is burning him.
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As one who sees in dreams and wakes to find the emotional impression of his vision still powerful while its parts fade from his mind — Just such am I, having lost nearly all the vision itself, while in my heart I feel the sweetness of it yet distill and fall.
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No sadness is greater than in misery to rehearse memories of joy.
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Already I had fixed my look on his; and he rose upright with breast and countenance, as if he entertained great scorn of Hell.
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Knowledge comes
Of learning well retain'd, unfruitful else.
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Love hath so long possessed me for his own And made his lordship so familiar.
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All hope abandon, ye who enter here.
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Love with delight discourses in my mind Upon my lady's admirable gifts... Beyond the range of human intellect.
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In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.
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No man may be so cursed by priest or pope but what the Eternal Love may still return while any thread of green lives on in hope.
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O power of fantasy that steals our minds from things outside, to leave us unaware, although a thousand trumpets may blow loud--what stirs you if the senses show you nothing? Light stirs you, formed in Heaven, by itself, or by His will Who sends it down to us.
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Nothing which is harmonized by the bond of the Muse can be changed from its own to another language without destroying its sweetness
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Heaven calls you, and revolves around you, displaying to you its eternal beauties..
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Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
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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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