Dante Alighieri Quotes
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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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I wept not, so to stone within I grew.
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He is, most of all, l'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle.
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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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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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Here let dead poetry rise once more to life.
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Because your question searches for deep meaning, I shall explain in simple words.
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Through me the way into the suffering city, Through me the way to the eternal pain, Through me the way that runs among the lost. Justice urged on my high artificer; My maker was divine authority, The highest wisdom, and the primal love. Before me nothing but eternal things were made, And I endure eternally. Abandon every hope, ye who enter here.
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Vedi l'erbette, i fiori e li arbuscelliche qui la terra sol da sé produce.
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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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My course is set for an uncharted sea.
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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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Seldom indeed does human virtue rise From trunk to branch.
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The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.
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He who know most grieves most for wasted time.
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Astrology, the noblest of sciences.
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A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.
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If you're asking for a date, forget it. 'Cause I make it a point not to go out with women who shoot me in the head!
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It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us.
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The whole universe is but the footprint of the Divine goodness.
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Eternal love made me.
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Do not desert me when I need you most. And if we can't go on together, let's retrace our steps as quickly as we can.
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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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There are souls beneath that water. Fixed in slimethey speak their piece, end it, and start again:'Sullen were we in the air made sweet by the Sun;in the glory of his shining our hearts poureda bitter smoke. Sullen were we begun;sullen we lie forever in this ditch.'This litany they gargle in their throatsas if they sand, but lacked the words and pitch.