Dante Alighieri Quotes, Sea Quotes, Uncharted Quotes

My course is set for an uncharted sea.

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They yearn for what they fear for.

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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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And here Dante describes an evidently spherical world... "The lamp of the world [the sun] rises to mortals through different passages; but through that which joins four circles with three crosses [the position of the rising sun at the vernal equinox] it issues with a better course and conjoined with better stars, and tempers and stamps the wax of the world more after its own fashion. Although such an outlet had made morning there and evening here, and all the hemisphere there was bright, and the other dark..."

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As little flowers, which the chill of night has bent and huddled, when the white sun strikes, grow straight and open fully on their stems, so did I, too, with my exhausted force.

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Lost are we, and are only so far punished, That without hope we live on in desire.

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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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The day that man allows true love to appear, those things which are well made will fall into cofusion and will overturn everything we believe to be right and true.

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No sadness is greater than in misery to rehearse memories of joy.

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The well heeded well heard.

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I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightfoward pathway had been lost. Ah me! How hard a thing is to say, what was this forest savage, rough, and stern, which in the very thought renews the fear. So bitter is it, death is little more.

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Here my powers rest from their high fantasy, but already I could feel my being turned- instinct and intellect balanced equally. as in a wheel whose motion nothing jars- by the Love that moves the Sun and the other stars.

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

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

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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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Be like a solid tower whose brave height remains unmoved by all the winds that blow; the man who lets his thoughts be turned aside by one thing or another, will lose sight of his true goal, his mind sapped of its strength.

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Blessed are the peacemakers, For they have freed themselves from sinful wrath.

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Love, that all gentle hearts so quickly know.

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Love insists the loved loves back

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Your fame is as the grass, whose hue comes and goes, and His might withers it by whose power it sprang from the lap of the earth.

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