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How come I never meet any nice girls?

Dante Alighieri

Girl, Nice, Nice Girl

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e quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle" ("and thence we came forth to see again the stars")

Dante Alighieri

Stars

Divina Commedia "Inferno" canto 34, l. 139 (ca. 1310 - 1321) (translation by John D. Sinclair)

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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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Art, Grandchildren, Able

"Divine Comedy". Poem by Dante Alighieri. Inferno, Song XI, 103, 1321.

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I made my own house be my gallows.

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House, Gallows, Made

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Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.

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Divine Comedy, Inferno, Gates Of Hell

Dante Alighieri (2014). “Dante's Inferno [translated]: Modern English Translation”, p.21, BookBaby

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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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Language, Muse, Destroying

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O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!

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Littles, Bitterness, Faults

Dante Alighieri (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Dante Alighieri (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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And here Dante describes an evidently spherical world... "The lamp of the world [the sun] rises to mortals through different passages; but through that which joins four circles with three crosses [the position of the rising sun at the vernal equinox] it issues with a better course and conjoined with better stars, and tempers and stamps the wax of the world more after its own fashion. Although such an outlet had made morning there and evening here, and all the hemisphere there was bright, and the other dark..."

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Fashion, Morning, Stars

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Deed done is well begun.

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Deeds Done, Done, Deeds

Dante Alighieri (1857). “Dante, tr. into Engl. verse by I.C. Wright, with engr. after Flaxman”, p.116

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The human race finds itself in a better situation when it has the higher level of freedom.

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Race, Levels, Situation

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Less shame a greater fault would palliate.

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Faults, Shame, Greater

Dante Alighieri (1862). “Dante's Divina commedia, tr. in the metre and triple rhyme of the original, with notes, by mrs. Ramsay”, p.213

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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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Strong, Men, Innocence

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O foolish anxiety of wretched man, how inconclusive are the arguments which make thee beat thy wings below!

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Men, Wings, Anxiety

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At this high moment, ability failed my capacity to describe.

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Moments, Capacity, Ability

Dante Alighieri (2015). “Divine Comedy (Volume I): Paradise {Illustrated}”, p.5, eKitap Projesi

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O you, who in some pretty boat, Eager to listen, have been following Behind my ship, that singing sails along Turn back to look again upon your own shores; Tempt not the deep, lest unawares, In losing me, you yourselves might be lost. The sea I sail has never yet been passed; Minerva breathes, and pilots me Apollo, And Muses nine point out to me the Bears. You other few who have neck uplifted Betimes to the bread of angels upon Which one lives and does not grow sated, Well may you launch your vessel Upon the deep sea.

Dante Alighieri

Angel, Sea, Singing

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This sorrow weighs upon the melancholy souls of those who lived without infamy or praise.

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Life, Soul, Sorrow

"Inferno", III. 3 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 440-455), 1922.

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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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Running, Sea, Water

Dante Alighieri (1902). “The Divine Comedy”

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He who shall never be divided from me kissed my mouth all trembling.

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Sweet, Mouths, Trembling

Dante Alighieri (1849). “Dante's Divine comedy: the Inferno, a literal prose tr., with the text of the original and notes, by J.A. Carlyle”, p.58

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That infinite and indescribable good which is there above races as swiftly to love as a ray of light to a bright body.It gives of itself according to the ardor it finds, so that as charity spreads farther the eternal good increases upon it,and the more souls there are who love, up there, the more there are to love well, and the more love they reflect to each other, as in a mirror.

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Mirrors, Light, Race

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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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Butterfly, Angel, Judgment

Dante Alighieri (2016). “The Divine Comedy. Longfellow's Translation.”, p.522, Dante Alighieri

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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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May, Merit, Seeds

Dante Alighieri, John Ciardi (1996). “The Purgatorio”

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Give unto us this day the daily manna Without which, in this desert where we dwell, He must go backward who would most advance.

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Giving, Desert, Spirituality

Dante Alighieri (1948). “Dante”

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I was so full of sleep at the time that I left the true way.

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Time, Sleep, Way

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Thou shall know by experience how salt the savor is of others' bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's stairs.

Dante Alighieri

Bread, Salt, Path

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Small projects need much more help than great.

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Needs, Helping, Projects

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