Dante Alighieri Quotes, Verses Quotes, Knows Quotes

What shall one do with the verse, if he knows not That?

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As phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall.

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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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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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There are souls beneath that water. Fixed in slimethey speak their piece, end it, and start again:'Sullen were we in the air made sweet by the Sun;in the glory of his shining our hearts poureda bitter smoke. Sullen were we begun;sullen we lie forever in this ditch.'This litany they gargle in their throatsas if they sand, but lacked the words and pitch.

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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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From a small spark, Great flame has risen.

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Pure essence, and pure matter, and the two joined into one were shot forth without flaw, like three bright arrows from a three-string bow.

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The human race finds itself in a better situation when it has the higher level of freedom.

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As one who sees in dreams and wakes to find the emotional impression of his vision still powerful while its parts fade from his mind - Just such am I, having lost nearly all the vision itself, while in my heart I feel the sweetness of it yet distill and fall.

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For she doth make my veins and pulses tremble.

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Astrology, the noblest of sciences.

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Give unto us this day the daily manna Without which, in this desert where we dwell, He must go backward who would most advance.

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A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.

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Less shame a greater fault would palliate.

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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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Where the way is hardest, there go thou; Follow your own path and let people talk.

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

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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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O foolish anxiety of wretched man, how inconclusive are the arguments which make thee beat thy wings below!

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