Dante Alighieri Quotes
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Go right on and listen as thou goest.
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Do not be afraid; our fate Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.
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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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I care not where my body may take me as long as my soul is embarked on a meaningful journey.
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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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Three sparks - pride, envy, and avarice - have been kindled in all hearts.
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Lying in a featherbed will bring you no fame, nor staying beneath the quilt, and he who uses up his life without achieving fame leaves no more vestige of himself on Earth than smoke in the air or foam upon the water.
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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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As flowerlets drooped and puckered in the night turn up to the returning sun and spread their petals wide on his new warmth and light-just so my wilted spirits rose again and such a heat of zeal surged through my veins that I was born anew.
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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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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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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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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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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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What shall one do with the verse, if he knows not That?
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There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of despair.
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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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There is a gentle thought that often springs to life in me, because it speaks of you.
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Nothing which is harmonized by the bond of the Muse can be changed from its own to another language without destroying its sweetness.
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The splendors that belong unto the fame of earth are but a wind, that in the same direction lasts not long.
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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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Mankind, why do ye set your hearts on things That, of necessity, may not be shared?
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If you give people light, they will find their own way.
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...ma gia volgena il mio disio e'l velle si come rota ch'igualmente e mossa, l'amor che move: i sole e l'altre stelle ...as a wheel turns smoothtly, free from jars, my will and my desire were turned by love, The love that moves the sun and the other stars.