For tears and laughter are such pursuivants
Unto the passion from which each springs forth,
In the most truthful least the will they follow. - Dante Alighieri
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For tears and laughter are such pursuivants Unto the passion from which each springs forth, In the most truthful least the will they follow.
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Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri (c. 30 May 1265 – 13 September 1321), most likely baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri, was an Italian poet, writer and philosopher. His Divine Comedy, originally called Comedìa (modern Italian: Commedia) and later christened Divina by Giovanni Boccaccio, is widely considered one of the most important poems of the Middle Ages and the greatest literary work in the Italian language.
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Dante
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Durante degli Alighieri
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Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri
your soul has been assailed by cowardice, which often weighs so heavily on a man — distracting him from honorable trials — as phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall.
