Dante Alighieri Quotes
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The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.
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It is no learning to understand what you do not retain.
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There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault.
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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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Beauty awakens the soul to act.
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A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.
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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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The whole universe is but the footprint of the Divine goodness.
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That which had pleased me once, troubled by spirit.
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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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He who shall never be divided from me kissed my mouth all trembling.
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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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It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us.
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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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As phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall.
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I wept not, so to stone within I grew.
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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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Abandon hope, all ye who enter here. Omnes relinquite spes, o vos intrantes
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Seldom indeed does human virtue rise From trunk to branch.
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Your fame is as the grass, whose hue comes and goes, and His might withers it by whose power it sprang from the lap of the earth.
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A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.
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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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Voi vigilate ne l'etterno die.
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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.