Dante Alighieri Quotes, Eye Quotes, Heaven Quotes

Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.

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As fall the light autumnal leaves, one still the other following, till the bough strews all its honors on the earth below.

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They yearn for what they fear for.

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Midway along the journey of our life I woke to find myself in a dark wood, for I had wandered off from the straight path. How hard it is to tell what it was like, this wood of wilderness, savage and stubborn (the thought of it brings back all my old fears), a bitter place! Death could scarce be bitterer. But if I would show the good that came of it I must talk about things other than the good.

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I care not where my body may take me as long as my soul is embarked on a meaningful journey.

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I wept not — so to stone I grew within.

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Doubting pleases me no less than knowing

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He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.

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

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The mouse had fallen in with evil cats.

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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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Love insists the loved loves back

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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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It may be that a more subtle person would find for this thing a reason of greater subtlety: but such is the reason that I find, and that liketh me best.

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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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Before me things created were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.

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Love, who insists that love shall mutual be, Link'd me to him with charm strong as our fates; Even now it leaves me not, as thou dost see.

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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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Three sparks - pride, envy, and avarice - have been kindled in all hearts.

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