Meaning of the quote

The secret to getting things done is simple - you have to take action! Instead of just thinking about what you want to do, you need to actually start doing it. Sitting around and waiting won't make anything happen. The only way to make progress is to start working towards your goals. So if there's something you want to accomplish, don't just think about it - get up and do it!

About Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri was an influential Italian poet, writer, and philosopher known for his masterpiece, the Divine Comedy. He helped establish the use of the Italian vernacular in literature and is considered a national poet of Italy and one of the greatest literary icons of the Western world.

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Nature is the art of God.

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Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.

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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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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 more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

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From a little spark may burst a flame.

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All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

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Beauty awakens the soul to act.

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You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man’s bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man’s stairs.

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

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Small projects need much more help than great.

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If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.

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The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.

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

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Follow your own star!

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I wept not, so to stone within I grew.

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

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There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

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Pride, envy, avarice – these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.

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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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He listens well who takes notes.

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I love to doubt as well as know.

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Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.

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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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Remember tonight… for it is the beginning of always.

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