Dante Alighieri Quotes, Blow Quotes, Idols Quotes

Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.

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He whom you see-along the downward arc- was William, and the land that mourns his death, for living Charles and Frederick, now laments; now he has learned how Heaven loves the just ruler, and he would show this outwardly as well, so radiantly visible.

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O you proud Christians, wretched souls and small,/ Who by the dim lights of your twisted minds/ Believe you prosper even as you fall,/ Can you not see that we are worms, each one/ Born to become the angelic butterfly/ That flies defenseless to the Judgement Throne?

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Oh foolish desires of mortals! How weak are the reasons that lead us to not take off our flight from the ground.

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The infernal storm, eternal in its rage, sweeps and drives the spirits with its blast; it whirls them, lashing them with punishment. When they are swept back past their place of judgment then come the shrieks, laments, and anguished cries; there they blaspheme God's almighty power.

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It was the hour of morning, when the sun mounts with those stars that shone with it when God's own love first set in motion those fair things

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Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.

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O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?

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Stand firm as the tower that never shakes its top whatever wind may blow.

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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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e quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle" ("and thence we came forth to see again the stars")

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The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and likewise pain.

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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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When we encountered a band of souls coming along the barrier, and each was gazing at us in the evening people gaze at one another under the new moon

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A backward glance can often lift the heart.

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

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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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It is no learning to understand what you do not retain.

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Mankind is at its best when it is most free.

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