Dante Alighieri - Love Quotes

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I saw within Its depth how It conceives all things in a single volume bound by Love, of which the universe is the scattered leaves.

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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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I am the way into the city of woe.
I am the way to a forsaken people.
I am the way into eternal sorrow.
Sacred justice moved my architect.
I was raised here by divine omnipotence,
Primordial love and ultimate intellect.
Only those elements time cannot wear
Were made before me, and beyond time I stand.
Abandon all hope ye who enter here.

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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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Love hath so long possessed me for his own And made his lordship so familiar.

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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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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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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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How brief a blaze a woman's love will yield If not relit by frequent touch and sight.

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Love, that exempts no one beloved from loving, seized me with pleasure of this man so strongly, that, as thou seest, it doth not yet desert me.

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Thus you may understand that love alone is the true seed of every merit in you, and of all acts for which you must atone.

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The day that man allows true love to appear, those things which are well made will fall into confusion and will overturn everything we believe to be right and true.

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The Love that moves the sun and the other stars.

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It was now the hour that turns back the longing of seafarers and melts their hearts, the day they have bidden dear friends farewell, and pierces the new traveler with love if he hears in the distance the bell that seems to mourn the dying day.

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Love, which absolves no beloved one from loving, seized me so strongly with his charm that, as thou seest, it does not leave me yet.

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Love, which is quickly kindled in the gentle heart, seized this man for the fair form that was taken from me, and the manner still hurts me.

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

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