Dante Alighieri Quotes, Stars Quotes, Moving Quotes

L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle (The love that moves the sun and the other stars)

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I, answering in the end, began: 'Alas, how many yearning thoughts, what great desire, have lead them through such sorrow to their fate?

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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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I saw a point that shone with light so keen, the eye that sees it cannot bear its blazing; the star that is for us the smallest one would seem a moon if placed beside this point.

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Oh blind! Oh ignorant, self-seeking cupidity which spurs us so in the short mortal life and steeps us so through all eternity!

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

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...Everything that is, desires to be. As we act, we unfold our being. Enjoyment naturally follows, for a thing desired always brings delight.

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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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This miserable way is taken by the sorry souls of those who lived without disgrace and without praise. They now commingle with the coward angels, the company of those who were not rebels nor faithful to their God, but stood apart. The heavens, that their beauty not be lessened, have cast them out, nor will deep Hell receive them - even the wicked cannot glory in them.

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Love, that all gentle hearts so quickly know.

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To course across more kindly waters now my talent's little vessel lifts her sails, leaving behind herself a sea so cruel; and what I sing will be that second kingdom, in which the human soul is cleansed of sin, becoming worthy of ascent to Heaven.

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

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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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Into the eternal darkness, into fire and into ice.

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If thou follow thy star, thou canst not fail of glorious heaven.

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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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Lying in a featherbed will bring you no fame, nor staying beneath the quilt, and he who uses up his life without achieving fame leaves no more vestige of himself on Earth than smoke in the air or foam upon the water.

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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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... 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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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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