Dante Alighieri Quotes, Dark Quotes, Journey Quotes

At the midpoint on the journey of life, I found myself in a dark forest, for the clear path was lost.

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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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My soul tasted that heavenly food, which gives new appetite while it satiates.

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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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So may heaven's grace clear away the foam from the conscience, that the river of thy thoughts may roll limpid thenceforth.

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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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The glory of Him who moves everything penetrates through the universe, and is resplendent in one part more and in another less.

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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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Through me the way into the suffering city, Through me the way to the eternal pain, Through me the way that runs among the lost. Justice urged on my high artificer; My maker was divine authority, The highest wisdom, and the primal love. Before me nothing but eternal things were made, And I endure eternally. Abandon every hope, ye who enter here.

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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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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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Abandon every hope, you who enter.

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

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O power of fantasy that steals our minds from things outside, to leave us unaware, although a thousand trumpets may blow loud--what stirs you if the senses show you nothing? Light stirs you, formed in Heaven, by itself, or by His will Who sends it down to us.

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

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Into the eternal darkness, into fire and into ice.

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Seldom indeed does human virtue rise From trunk to branch.

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Consider the sea's listless chime: Time's self it is, made audible.

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Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.

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...ma gia volgena il mio disio e'l velle si come rota ch'igualmente e mossa, l'amor che move: i sole e l'altre stelle ...as a wheel turns smoothtly, free from jars, my will and my desire were turned by love, The love that moves the sun and the other stars.

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