Dante Alighieri Quotes
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Non isperate mai veder lo cielo:i' vegno per menarvi a l'altra rivane le tenebre etterne, in caldo e 'n gelo.
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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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The heaven that rolls around cries aloud to you while it displays its eternal beauties, and yet your eyes are fixed upon the earth alone.
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The glory of the one who moves everything penetrates the universe, and shines in one part more and less elsewhere.
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Io son colui, che tenni ambo le chiaviDel cor di Federigo, e sì le volsi,Serrando e disserrando, sì soavi.
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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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Che l'arte vostra quella, quanto puote,Segue, come il Maestro fa il discente,Sì che vostr'arte a Dio quasi è nipote.
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Love hath so long possessed me for his own And made his lordship so familiar.
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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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Come, follow me, and leave the world to its babblings.
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Consider that this day ne'er dawns again.
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The love of God, unutterable and perfect, flows into a pure soul the way light rushes into a transparent object. The more love that it finds, the more it gives itself: so that, as we grow clear and open, the more complete the joy of heaven is. And the more souls who resonate together, the greater the intensity of their love, and, mirror like, each soul reflects the other.
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Amore e 'l cor gentil sono una cosa...e così esser l'un sanza l'altro osacom'alma razional sanza ragione.
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La moralitade è bellezza de la filosofia.
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A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.
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Amore,acceso di virtù, sempre altro accese,pur che la fiamma sua paresse fore.
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Will cannot be quenched against its will.
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Ché cima di giudicio non s'avvallaperché foco d'amor compia in un puntociò che de' sodisfar chi qui s'astalla.
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Non è il mondan romore altro ch'un fiatodi vento, ch'or vien quinci e or vien quindi,e muta nome perché muta lato.
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A maggior forza e a miglior naturaliberi soggiacete; e quella criala mente in voi, che 'l ciel no ha in sua cura.Però, se 'l mondo presente disvia,in voi è la cagione, in voi si cheggia.
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Do not desert me when I need you most. And if we can't go on together, let's retrace our steps as quickly as we can.
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Do ye not comprehend that we are worms born to bring forth the angelic butterfly that flieth unto judgment without screen?
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The purpose of the whole the Comedy and of this portion the Paradiso is to remove those who are living in this life from the state of wretchedness, and to lead them to the state of blessedness.
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The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and likewise pain.