Dante Alighieri Quotes, Light Quotes, People Quotes

If you give people light, they will find their own way.

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Perceive ye not that we are worms, designed To form the angelic butterfly, that goes To judgment, leaving all defence behind? Why doth your mind take such exalted pose, Since ye, disabled, are as insects, mean As worm which never transformation knows?

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…all things created have an order in themselves, and this begets the form that lets the universe resemble God.

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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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Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

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There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair

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In that part of the book of my memory before the which is little that can be read, there is a rubric, saying, Incipit Vita Nova. Under such rubric I find written many things; and among them the words which I purpose to copy into this little book; if not all of them, at the least their substance.

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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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If i thought i was replying to someone who would every return to the world, this flame would cease it's flickering. But since no one has returned from these depths alive, if what I've heard is true, I will answer you without fear of infamy.

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These have not the hope to die.

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The greatest gift that God in His bounty made in creation, and the most conformable to His goodness, and that which He prizes the most, was the freedom of will, with which the creatures with intelligence, they all and they alone, were and are endowed.

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When I had journeyed half of our life's way, I found myself within a shadowed forest, for I had lost the path that does not stray.

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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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It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us.

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... Nessun maggior dolore Che ricordarsi del tempo felice Nella miseria. (There is no greater pain than to remember a happy time when one is in misery.)

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Love and the gentle heart are but the same thing.

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From a little spark may burst a flame.

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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 little flowers, which the chill of night has bent and huddled, when the white sun strikes, grow straight and open fully on their stems, so did I, too, with my exhausted force.

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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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