Dante Alighieri Quotes

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Therefore the sight that is granted to your world penetrates within the Eternal Justice as the eye into the sea; for though from the shore it sees the bottom, in the open sea it does not, and yet the bottom is there but the depth conceals it.

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Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master. Thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.

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The mind which is created quick to love, is responsive to everything that is pleasing, soon as by pleasure it is awakened into activity. Your apprehensive faculty draws an impression from a real object, and unfolds it within you, so that it makes the mind turn thereto. And if, being turned, it inclines towards it, that inclination is love; that is nature, which through pleasure is bound anew within you.

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The Infinite Goodness has such wide arms that it takes whatever turns to it.

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There is no greater pain than to remember a happy time when one is in misery.

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Like the lark that soars in the air, first singing, then silent, content with the last sweetness that satiates it, such seemed to me that image, the imprint of the Eternal Pleasure.

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As, pricked out with less and greater lights, between the poles of the universe, the Milky Way so gleameth white as to set very sages questioning.

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In each fire there is a spirit; Each one is wrapped in what is burning him.

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Give unto us this day the daily manna Without which, in this desert where we dwell, He must go backward who would most advance.

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We are but a day in this world, and in that day the fashion is changed a thousand times: all seek liberty, yet all deprive themselves of it.

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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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The entire universe is naught else than a footprint of divine goodness.

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The truth thy speech doth show, within my heart reproves the swelling pride.
In Italian: Lo tuo ver dir m'incuora Buona umilta e gran tumor m'appiani.

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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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Mankind, why do ye set your hearts on things That, of necessity, may not be shared?

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And thence we issued forth again to see the stars.

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Distinct with less and greater lights, the Galaxy so whitens between the poles of the world that it makes even the wise to question.

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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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When the game of hazard is broken up, he who loses remains sorrowful.

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No Science demonstrates its own subject, but presupposes it.

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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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To have heard without retaining does not make knowledge.

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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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A prayer may chance to rise From one whose heart lives in the grace of God. A prayer from any other is unheeded.

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Midway in our life's journey, I went astray
from the straight road and woke to find myself
alone in a dark wood.

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Be like a solid tower whose brave height remains unmoved by all the winds that blow; the man who lets his thoughts be turned aside by one thing or another, will lose sight of his true goal, his mind sapped of its strength.

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A man's renown is like the hue of grass, Which comes and goes.

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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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Love with delight discourses in my mind Upon my lady's admirable gifts... Beyond the range of human intellect.

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In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.

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