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O faithful conscience, delicately pure, how doth a little failing wound thee sore!

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Faithful, Littles, Failing

"Divine Comedy". Poem by Dante Alighieri. Purgatorio, Song III, 8, 1321.

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Here pity only lives when it is dead - Virgil

Dante Alighieri

Pity

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There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair

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Pride, Men, Envy

Dante Alighieri (2001). “The Inferno”, p.67, Penguin

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Segui il tuo corso et lascia dir les genti.
(Follow your road and let the people say).

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People

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If you're asking for a date, forget it. 'Cause I make it a point not to go out with women who shoot me in the head!

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Asking, Causes, Forget

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There is in hell a place stone-built throughout, Called Malebolge, of an iron hue, Like to the wall that circles it about.

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Wall, Circles, Iron

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Love, who insists that love shall mutual be,
Link'd me to him with charm strong as our fates;
Even now it leaves me not, as thou dost see.

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Life, Mutual

"The Trilogy: Or Dante's Three Visions".

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Doubting pleases me no less than knowing

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Please Me, Knowing, Doubt

Dante Alighieri (2016). “The Divine Comedy. Longfellow's Translation.”, p.126, Dante Alighieri

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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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Science, White, Light

Dante Alighieri (1950). “The divine comedy of Dante Alighieri: the Carlyle-Okey-Wicksteed translation”

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The purpose of the whole [the Comedy] and of this portion [the Paradiso] is to remove those who are living in this life from the state of wretchedness, and to lead them to the state of blessedness.

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Life, Work, Purpose

"The Divine Comedy".

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

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Willpower

Dante Alighieri (1948). “Dante”

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I felt for the tormented whirlwinds Damned for their carnal sins Committed when they let their passions rule their reason.

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Passion, Sin, Reason

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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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Running, Religious, Pain

Dante Alighieri (1982). “The divine comedy of Dante Alighieri: a verse translation”

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Your fame is as the grass, whose hue comes and goes, and His might withers it by whose power it sprang from the lap of the earth.

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Earth, Might, Lap

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No sorrow is deeper than the remembrance of happiness when in misery.

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Remembrance, Suffering, Sorrow

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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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Depth, Literature, Saws

Dante Alighieri (2001). “The Paradiso”, p.12, Penguin

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All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

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Pedestal, Divine Comedy, Inferno

Dante Alighieri, Henry Francis Cary (2010). “The Divine Comedy”, p.210, Bibliolis Books

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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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Butterfly, Mean, Leaving

Dante Alighieri, Charles Hall Grandgent (1947). “The Portable Dante: The Divine Comedy, Complete”

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They had their faces twisted toward their haunches and found it necessary to walk backward, because they could not see ahead of them. ...And since he wanted so to see ahead, he looks behind and walks a backward path.

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Path, Faces, Looks

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O how far remov'd, Predestination! is thy foot from such As see not the First Cause entire: and ye, O mortal men! be wary how ye judge: For we, who see the Maker, know not yet The number of the chosen; and esteem Such scantiness of knowledge our delight: For all good is, in that primal good, Concentrate; and God's will and ours are one.

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Men, Feet, Numbers

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He is, most of all, l'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle.

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Moving, Amor, Divine Comedy

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There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words of pain, tones of anger, voices loud and hoarse, and with these the sound of hands, made a tumult which is whirling through that air forever dark, and sand eddies in a whirlwind.

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Pain, Dark, Language Words

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Behold a God more powerful than I who comes to rule over me.

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Powerful

Dante Alighieri, Dino S. Cervigni, Edward Vasta (1995). “Vita Nuova: Text”, Univ of Notre Dame Pr

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Fame is not won on downy plumes nor under canopies; the man who consumes his days without obtaining it leaves such mark of himself on earth as smoke in air or foam on water.

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Men, Air, Water

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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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Men, Desert, Beloved

Dante Alighieri (2016). “The Divine Comedy. Longfellow's Translation.”, p.60, Dante Alighieri

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Born: 1265
Died: September 14, 1321
Occupation: Poet
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