Dante Alighieri Quotes, Stones Quotes, Grew Quotes

I wept not — so to stone I grew within.

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A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.

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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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There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words of pain, tones of anger, voices loud and hoarse, and with these the sound of hands, made a tumult which is whirling through that air forever dark, and sand eddies in a whirlwind.

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...Everything that is, desires to be. As we act, we unfold our being. Enjoyment naturally follows, for a thing desired always brings delight.

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Fate's arrow, when expected, travels slow.

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He who awaits the call, but sees the need, Already sets his spirit to refuse it.

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The devil is not as black as he is painted.

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One ought to be afraid of nothing other then things possessed of power to do us harm, but things innoucuous need not be feared.

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Follow your own star!

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Thus you may understand that love alone is the true seed of every merit in you, and of all acts for which you must atone.

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When I had journeyed half of our life's way, I found myself within a shadowed forest, for I had lost the path that does not stray.

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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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That which had pleased me once, troubled by spirit.

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

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They yearn for what they fear for.

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Thou shall know by experience how salt the savor is of others' bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's stairs.

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Sta come torre ferma, che non crolla Giammai la cima per soffiar de' venti. Be steadfast as a tower that doth not bend its stately summit to the tempest's shock.

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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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In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.

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