Dante Alighieri Quotes
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A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.
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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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Because your question searches for deep meaning, I shall explain in simple words.
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Midway along the journey of our life I woke to find myself in a dark wood, for I had wandered off from the straight path. How hard it is to tell what it was like, this wood of wilderness, savage and stubborn (the thought of it brings back all my old fears), a bitter place! Death could scarce be bitterer. But if I would show the good that came of it I must talk about things other than the good.
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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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Eternal love made me.
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It may be that a more subtle person would find for this thing a reason of greater subtlety: but such is the reason that I find, and that liketh me best.
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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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Three things remain with us from paradise: stars, flowers and children.
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The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.
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The whole universe is but the footprint of the Divine goodness.
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I wept not, so to stone within I grew.
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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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Hope not ever to see heaven. I come to lead you to the other shore; into the eternal darkness; into fire and ice.
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He is, most of all, l'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle.
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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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That which had pleased me once, troubled by spirit.
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A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.
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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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It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us.
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Here let dead poetry rise once more to life.
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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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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.)