Dante Alighieri Quotes
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My soul tasted that heavenly food, which gives new appetite while it satiates.
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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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If you give people light, they will find their own way.
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The heavens call to you, and circle about you, displaying to you their eternal splendors, and your eye gazes only to earth.
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Genus vero philosophie, sub quo hic in toto et parte proceditur, est morale negotium, sive ethica; quia non ad speculandum, sed ad opus inventum est totum et pars.
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Mankind, why do ye set your hearts on things That, of necessity, may not be shared?
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What shall one do with the verse, if he knows not That?
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And when he had put his hand on mine with a cheerful look, wherefrom I took courage, he brought me within to the secret things. Here sighs, laments, and deep wailings were resounding through the starless air; wherefore at first I wept thereat. Strange tongues, horrible utterances, words of woe, accents of anger, voices high and faint, and sounds of hands with them, were making a tumult which whirls always in that air forever dark, like the sand when the whirlwind breathes.
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If anyone should want to know my name, I am called Leah. And I spend all my time weaving garlands of flowers with my fair hands, t o please me when I stand before the mirror; my sister Rachel sits all the day long before her own, and never moves away. She loves to contemplate her lovely eyes; I love to use my hands to adorn myself: her joy is in reflection, mine in act.
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Go right on and listen as thou goest.
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Doubting pleases me no less than knowing.
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Thou shall know by experience how salt the savor is of others' bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's stairs.
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Love kindled by virtue always kindles another, provided that its flame appear outwardly.
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Of my sowing such straw I reap. O human folk, why set the heart there where exclusion of partnership is necessary.
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There is in hell a place stone-built throughout, Called Malebolge, of an iron hue, Like to the wall that circles it about.
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There is a gentle thought that often springs to life in me, because it speaks of you.
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Curb your talent lest it speed where virtue does not guide.
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Compassion is not a passion; rather a noble disposition of the soul, made ready to receive love, mercy, and other charitable passions.
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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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And here Dante describes an evidently spherical world... "The lamp of the world the sun rises to mortals through different passages; but through that which joins four circles with three crosses the position of the rising sun at the vernal equinox it issues with a better course and conjoined with better stars, and tempers and stamps the wax of the world more after its own fashion. Although such an outlet had made morning there and evening here, and all the hemisphere there was bright, and the other dark..."
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Love with delight discourses in my mind Upon my lady's admirable gifts... Beyond the range of human intellect.
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Do not be afraid; our fate Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.
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Stand firm as the tower that never shakes its top whatever wind may blow.
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He whom you see-along the downward arc- was William, and the land that mourns his death, for living Charles and Frederick, now laments; now he has learned how Heaven loves the just ruler, and he would show this outwardly as well, so radiantly visible.