The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.
Dante Alighieri
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More quotes by Dante Alighieri
- 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.
- Nature is the art of God.
- Beauty awakens the soul to act.
- Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.
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