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The human race finds itself in a better situation when it has the higher level of freedom.
Dante Alighieri -
A prayer may chance to rise From one whose heart lives in the grace of God. A prayer from any other is unheeded.
Dante Alighieri
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He is not always at ease who laughs.
Dante Alighieri -
For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.
Dante Alighieri -
Deed done is well begun.
Dante Alighieri -
I was so full of sleep at the time that I left the true way.
Dante Alighieri -
Justice divine has weighed: the doom is clear. All hope renounce, ye lost, who enter here.
Dante Alighieri -
The well heeded well heard.
Dante Alighieri
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Love is the source of every virtue in you and of every deed which deserves punishment.
Dante Alighieri -
But if, as morning rises, dreams are true.
Dante Alighieri -
He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.
Dante Alighieri -
This miserable way is taken by the sorry souls of those who lived without disgrace and without praise. They now commingle with the coward angels, the company of those who were not rebels nor faithful to their God, but stood apart. The heavens, that their beauty not be lessened, have cast them out, nor will deep Hell receive them - even the wicked cannot glory in them.
Dante Alighieri -
I felt for the tormented whirlwinds Damned for their carnal sins Committed when they let their passions rule their reason.
Dante Alighieri -
Perceive ye not that we are worms, designed To form the angelic butterfly, that goes To judgment, leaving all defence behind? Why doth your mind take such exalted pose, Since ye, disabled, are as insects, mean As worm which never transformation knows?
Dante Alighieri
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I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightfoward pathway had been lost. Ah me! How hard a thing is to say, what was this forest savage, rough, and stern, which in the very thought renews the fear. So bitter is it, death is little more.
Dante Alighieri -
The man who lies asleep will never waken fame.
Dante Alighieri -
Ah! Justice of our God! Who else could stow Such travails new and pains as met my glance!
Dante Alighieri -
Oh foolish desires of mortals! How weak are the reasons that lead us to not take off our flight from the ground.
Dante Alighieri -
You shall leave everything you love.
Dante Alighieri -
All of nature is God's art.
Dante Alighieri
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I, answering in the end, began: 'Alas, how many yearning thoughts, what great desire, have lead them through such sorrow to their fate?
Dante Alighieri -
Infinite goodness has such wide arms.
Dante Alighieri -
The loser, when a game of dice is done, remains behind reviewing every roll sadly, and sadly wiser, and alone.
Dante Alighieri -
That infinite and indescribable good which is there above races as swiftly to love as a ray of light to a bright body.It gives of itself according to the ardor it finds, so that as charity spreads farther the eternal good increases upon it,and the more souls there are who love, up there, the more there are to love well, and the more love they reflect to each other, as in a mirror.
Dante Alighieri