Dante Alighieri Quotes
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It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us.
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The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and likewise pain.
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The day that man allows true love to appear, those things which are well made will fall into cofusion and will overturn everything we believe to be right and true.
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No man may be so cursed by priest or pope but what the Eternal Love may still return while any thread of green lives on in hope.
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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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Abandon hope, all ye who enter here. Omnes relinquite spes, o vos intrantes
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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.
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The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.
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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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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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As phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall.
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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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To get back up to the shining world from there My guide and I went into that hidden tunnel, And Following its path, we took no care To rest, but climbed: he first, then I-so far, through a round aperture I saw appear Some of the beautiful things that Heaven bears, Where we came forth, and once more saw the stars.
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I wept not, so to stone within I grew.
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Seldom indeed does human virtue rise From trunk to branch.
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Those ancients who in poetry presented the golden age, who sang its happy state, perhaps, in their Parnassus, dreamt this place. Here, mankind's root was innocent; and here were every fruit and never-ending spring; these streams--the nectar of which poets sing.
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The whole universe is but the footprint of the Divine goodness.
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They find seven cornices on which penitent and redeemed sinners are cleansed by the grace of God. On the first cornice, that of Pride, the proud are learning humility: Our Father, dwelling in the Heavens, nowise As circumscribed, but as the things above, Thy first effects, are dearer in Thine eyes, Hallowed Thy name be and the Power thereof, By every creature, as right meet it is We praise the tender effluence of Thy love. Let come to us, let come Thy kingdom's peace.
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He who shall never be divided from me kissed my mouth all trembling.
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A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.
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The infernal storm, eternal in its rage, sweeps and drives the spirits with its blast; it whirls them, lashing them with punishment. When they are swept back past their place of judgment then come the shrieks, laments, and anguished cries; there they blaspheme God's almighty power.
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As fall the light autumnal leaves, one still the other following, till the bough strews all its honors on the earth below.
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Voi vigilate ne l'etterno die.
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O faithful conscience, delicately pure, how doth a little failing wound thee sore!