Dante Alighieri Quotes
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My course is set for an uncharted sea.
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And as he, who with laboring breath has escaped from the deep to the shore, turns to the perilous waters and gazes.
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It is no learning to understand what you do not retain.
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Three things remain with us from paradise: stars, flowers and children.
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The whole universe is but the footprint of the Divine goodness.
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Seldom indeed does human virtue rise From trunk to branch.
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You can stay and die or you can walk your ugly ass back through that gate. It's your call, pal.
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I wept not, so to stone within I grew.
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That which had pleased me once, troubled by spirit.
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Here let dead poetry rise once more to life.
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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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The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.
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Beauty awakens the soul to act.
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I presumed to fix my look on the eternal light so long that I consumed my sight thereon.
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Eternal love made me.
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Abandon hope, all ye who enter here. Omnes relinquite spes, o vos intrantes
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... Nessun maggior dolore Che ricordarsi del tempo felice Nella miseria. (There is no greater pain than to remember a happy time when one is in misery.)
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As phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall.
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O you proud Christians, wretched souls and small,/ Who by the dim lights of your twisted minds/ Believe you prosper even as you fall,/ Can you not see that we are worms, each one/ Born to become the angelic butterfly/ That flies defenseless to the Judgement Throne?
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I am made of God, through his Grace. Such that your misery touches me not, Nor does flame of that burning assail me.
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To run over better waters the little vessel of my genius now hoists her sails, as she leaves behind her a sea so cruel.
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It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us.
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Thy soul is by vile fear assailed, which oft so overcasts a man, that he recoils from noblest resolution, like a beast at some false semblance in the twilight gloom.
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The greatest gift that God in His bounty made in creation, and the most conformable to His goodness, and that which He prizes the most, was the freedom of will, with which the creatures with intelligence, they all and they alone, were and are endowed.