Dante Alighieri Quotes
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As little flowers, which the chill of night has bent and huddled, when the white sun strikes, grow straight and open fully on their stems, so did I, too, with my exhausted force.
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Justice divine has weighed: the doom is clear. All hope renounce, ye lost, who enter here.
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The loser, when a game of dice is done, remains behind reviewing every roll sadly, and sadly wiser, and alone.
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I made my own house be my gallows.
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All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings it forth, soon slays with parching power.
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Deed done is well begun.
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All of nature is God's art.
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No sorrow is deeper than the remembrance of happiness when in misery.
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The well heeded well heard.
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In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray, Gone from the path direct.
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O foolish anxiety of wretched man, how inconclusive are the arguments which make thee beat thy wings below!
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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.
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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.
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Honor is the greatest poet.
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The truth thy speech doth show, within my heart reproves the swelling pride.
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So may heaven's grace clear away the foam from the conscience, that the river of thy thoughts may roll limpid thenceforth.
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The man who lies asleep will never waken fame.
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Behold a God more powerful than I who comes to rule over me.
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The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all his life drift past him like a dream, and the traces of his memory fade from time like smoke in air, or ripples on a stream.