Dante Alighieri Quotes, Journey Quotes, Divine Comedy Quotes

Midway upon the journey of our life

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Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

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Doubting charms me not less than knowledge.

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Mankind, why do ye set your hearts on things That, of necessity, may not be shared?

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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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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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He listens well who takes notes.

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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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In that part of the book of my memory before which little can be read, there is a heading, which says: ‘Incipit vita nova: Here begins the new life’.

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He who know most grieves most for wasted time.

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My course is set for an uncharted sea.

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Conscience, that boon companion who sets a man free under the strong breastplate of innocence, that bids him on and fear not.

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Love hath so long possessed me for his own And made his lordship so familiar.

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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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Here we find the moat of thieves. And just as a lizard, with a quick, slick slither, Flicks across the highway from hedge to hedge, Fleeter than a flash, in the battering dog-day weather, A fiery little monster, livid, in a rage, Black as any peppercorn, came and made a dart At the guts of the others, and leaping to engage One of the pair, it pierced him at the part Through which we first draw food; then loosed its grip And fell before him, outstretched and apart.

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

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The three Divine are in this hierarchy, First the Dominions, and the Virtues next; And the third order is that of the Powers. The in the dances twain penultimate The Principalities and Archangels wheel; The last is wholly of angelic sports. These orders upward all of them are gazing, And downward so prevail, that unto God They all attracted are and all attract.

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Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.

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As, pricked out with less and greater lights, between the poles of the universe, the Milky Way so gleameth white as to set very sages questioning.

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The well heeded well heard.

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