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Amore,acceso di virtù, sempre altro accese,pur che la fiamma sua paresse fore.
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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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In that book which is my memory, On the first page of the chapter that is the day when I first met you, Appear the words, ‘Here begins a new life’.
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Come, follow me, and leave the world to its babblings.
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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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Will cannot be quenched against its will.
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O mortal men, be wary of how ye judge.
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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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When we encountered a band of souls coming along the barrier, and each was gazing at us in the evening people gaze at one another under the new moon.
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Capo ha cosa fatta.
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Lo pianto stesso lì pianger non lascia,e 'l duol che truova in su li occhi rintoppo,si volge in entro a far crescer l'ambascia.
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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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Love, who insists that love shall mutual be, Link'd me to him with charm strong as our fates; Even now it leaves me not, as thou dost see.
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Fate's arrow, when expected, travels slow.
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La notte che le cose ci nasconde.
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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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Give unto us this day the daily manna Without which, in this desert where we dwell, He must go backward who would most advance.
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Ché tutto l'oro ch'è sotto la lunae che già fu, di quest'anime stanchepoterebbe farne posare una.
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Because there is no man who can be true and just judge of himself, so much will self-love deceive him.
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For she doth make my veins and pulses tremble.
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As the geometer intently seeks to square the circle, but he cannot reach, through thought on thought, the principle he needs, so I searched that strange sight.
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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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Be like a solid tower whose brave height remains unmoved by all the winds that blow; the man who lets his thoughts be turned aside by one thing or another, will lose sight of his true goal, his mind sapped of its strength.
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Se orazïone in prima non m'aitache surga sù di cuor che in grazia viva;l'altra che val, che 'n ciel non è udita?