Dante Alighieri Quotes, Sweet Quotes, Lying Quotes

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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Nothing which is harmonized by the bond of the Muse can be changed from its own to another language without destroying its sweetness

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As phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall.

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That which had pleased me once, troubled by spirit.

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The whole universe is but the footprint of the Divine goodness.

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Do ye not comprehend that we are worms born to bring forth the angelic butterfly that flieth unto judgment without screen?

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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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Love and the gentle heart are but the same thing.

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

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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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Now you know how much my love for you burns deep in me when I forget about our emptiness, and deal with shadows as with solid things.

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Imagination, that dost so abstract us That we are not aware, not even when A thousand trumpets sound about our ears!

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The experience of this sweet life.

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The well heeded well heard.

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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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He is not always at ease who laughs.

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Curb your talent lest it speed where virtue does not guide.

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Without hope we live in desire.

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The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. [This miserable mode Maintain the melancholy souls of those Who lived withouten infamy or praise.]

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

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