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• For she doth make my veins and pulses tremble.

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  Pulse, Veins, Divine Comedy

  Dante Alighieri (2016). “The Divine Comedy. Longfellow's Translation.”, p.10, Dante Alighieri

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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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  Dream, Memories, Lying

  Dante Alighieri, John Ciardi (1954). “The inferno”, Signet

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• The mouse had fallen in with evil cats.

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  Cat, Evil, Fallen

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

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• He is not always at ease who laughs.

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  Laughter, Laughing, Ease

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• I am searching for that which every man seeks-peace and rest.

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  Men, Relaxation, Every Man

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• Infinite goodness has such wide arms.

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  Arms, Infinite, Goodness

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

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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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• Before me things created were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.

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  Endure, Abandon, Eternal

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

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• But if, as morning rises, dreams are true.

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  Dream, Morning, Ifs

  Dante Alighieri, Flaxman (1857). “Dante”, p.104

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• Imagination, that dost so abstract us That we are not aware, not even when A thousand trumpets sound about our ears!

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  Imagination, Sound, Ears

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• Justice does not descend from its own pinnacle.

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  Justice, Doe, Pinnacle

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• Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.

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  Blow, Idols, Wind

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• No one thinks of how much blood it costs.

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  Thinking, Blood, Cost

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• For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.

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  Power, Evil, Defense

  Dante Alighieri, John Ciardi (1954). “The inferno”, Signet

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• And when he had put his hand on mine with a cheerful look, wherefrom I took courage, he brought me within to the secret things. Here sighs, laments, and deep wailings were resounding through the starless air; wherefore at first I wept thereat. Strange tongues, horrible utterances, words of woe, accents of anger, voices high and faint, and sounds of hands with them, were making a tumult which whirls always in that air forever dark, like the sand when the whirlwind breathes.

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  Dark, Air, Hands

  Dante Alighieri (2005). “The Divine Comedy: Inferno”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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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. Beatrice - Canto V 40-42

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  Mind, Doe, Heard

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• Unity in wills cannot be unless there is one will dominating and ruling all the rest to oneness... wills of mortals have need of a directive principle... therefore for the well-being of the world, there should be a monarchy.

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  Oneness, Unity, Principles

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• Seldom indeed does human virtue rise From trunk to branch.

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  Doe, Branches, Virtue

  Dante Alighieri (1948). “Dante”

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• It is no learning to understand what you do not retain.

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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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• There is no greater pain than to remember, in our present grief, past happiness.

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  Pain, Grief, Past

  Dante Alighieri, Mark Musa (1995). “Dante's Inferno: The Indiana Critical Edition”, p.311, Indiana University Press

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• The greatest gift that God in His bounty made in creation, and the most conformable to His goodness, and that which He prizes the most, was the freedom of will, with which the creatures with intelligence, they all and they alone, were and are endowed.

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  Christianity, Creation, Goodness

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• In His will, our peace.

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• Now you know how much my love for you burns deep in me when I forget about our emptiness, and deal with shadows as with solid things.

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  Shadow, My Love For You, Emptiness

  Dante Alighieri (2003). “The Portable Dante”, p.376, Penguin

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• They find seven cornices on which penitent and redeemed sinners are cleansed by the grace of God. On the first cornice, that of Pride, the proud are learning humility: Our Father, dwelling in the Heavens, nowise As circumscribed, but as the things above, Thy first effects, are dearer in Thine eyes, Hallowed Thy name be and the Power thereof, By every creature, as right meet it is We praise the tender effluence of Thy love. Let come to us, let come Thy kingdom's peace.

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  Peace, Father, Humility

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