Dante Alighieri Quotes, Twilight Quotes, Men Quotes

Thy soul is by vile fear assailed, which oft so overcasts a man, that he recoils from noblest resolution, like a beast at some false semblance in the twilight gloom.

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To get back up to the shining world from there My guide and I went into that hidden tunnel, And Following its path, we took no care To rest, but climbed: he first, then I-so far, through a round aperture I saw appear Some of the beautiful things that Heaven bears, Where we came forth, and once more saw the stars.

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As the geometer intently seeks to square the circle, but he cannot reach, through thought on thought, the principle he needs, so I searched that strange sight.

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If a thief helps a poor man out of the spoils of his thieving, we must not call that charity.

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The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.

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In His will, our peace.

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

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Fame is not won on downy plumes nor under canopies; the man who consumes his days without obtaining it leaves such mark of himself on earth as smoke in air or foam on water.

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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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I felt for the tormented whirlwinds Damned for their carnal sins Committed when they let their passions rule their reason.

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In that part of the book of my memory before which little can be read, there is a heading, which says: ‘Incipit vita nova: Here begins the new life’.

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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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But if, as morning rises, dreams are true.

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For she doth make my veins and pulses tremble.

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But the stars that marked our starting fall away. We must go deeper into greater pain, for it is not permitted that we stay.

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I made my own house be my gallows.

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They had their faces twisted toward their haunches and found it necessary to walk backward, because they could not see ahead of them. ...And since he wanted so to see ahead, he looks behind and walks a backward path.

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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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The devil is not as black as he is painted.

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Many have justice in their hearts, but slowly it is let fly, for it comes not without council to the bow.

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