Dante Alighieri Quotes

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O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!

Dante Alighieri
Less than a drop of blood remains in me that does not tremble; I recognize the signals of the ancient flame.

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Here must all distrust be left behind; all cowardice must be ended.

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To run over better waters the little vessel of my genius now hoists her sails, as she leaves behind her a sea so cruel.

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

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Love kindled by virtue always kindles another, provided that its flame appear outwardly.

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You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.

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But so much the more malign and wild does the ground become with bad seed and untilled, as it has the more of good earthly vigor.

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Worldly renown is naught but a breath of wind, which now comes this way and now comes that, and changes name because it changes quarter.

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O Supreme Light, that so high upliftest Thyself from mortal conceptions, re-lend to my mind a little of what Thou didst appear, and make my tongue so powerful that it may be able to leave one single spark of Thy glory for the folk to come.

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Heaven, to keep its beauty, cast them out, but even Hell itself would not receive them for fear the wicked there might glory over them.

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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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If thou follow thy star, thou canst not fail of a glorious haven.

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

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Because your question searches for deep meaning, I shall explain in simple words

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O power of fantasy that steals our minds from things outside, to leave us unaware, although a thousand trumpets may blow loud--what stirs you if the senses show you nothing? Light stirs you, formed in Heaven, by itself, or by His will Who sends it down to us.

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So my conscience chide me not, I am ready for Fortune as she wills.

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Be steadfast as a tower that doth not bend its stately summit to the tempest's shock.

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All hope abandon, ye who enter here.

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