Dante Alighieri Quotes
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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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When I had journeyed half of our life's way, I found myself within a shadowed forest, for I had lost the path that does not stray.
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Love and the gentle heart are but the same thing.
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Knowledge comes Of learning well retain'd, unfruitful else.
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I saw a point that shone with light so keen, the eye that sees it cannot bear its blazing; the star that is for us the smallest one would seem a moon if placed beside this point.
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I saw within Its depth how It conceives All things in a single volume bound by Love of which the universe is the scattered leaves.
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A prayer may chance to rise From one whose heart lives in the grace of God. A prayer from any other is unheeded.
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Still desiring, we live without hope.
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These have not the hope to die.
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Reason flies When following the senses, on clipped wings.
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Consider the sea's listless chime: Time's self it is, made audible.
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He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.
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That with him were, what time the Love Divine.
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I am searching for that which every man seeks-peace and rest.
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They had their faces twisted toward their haunches and found it necessary to walk backward, because they could not see ahead of them. ...And since he wanted so to see ahead, he looks behind and walks a backward path.
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Midway in our life's journey, I went astray from the straight road and woke to find myself alone in a dark wood.
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He loves but little who can say and count in words, how much he loves.
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It was the hour of morning, when the sun mounts with those stars that shone with it when God's own love first set in motion those fair things.
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I felt for the tormented whirlwinds Damned for their carnal sins Committed when they let their passions rule their reason.
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But if, as morning rises, dreams are true.