Dante Alighieri Quotes, Eye Quotes, Heaven Quotes

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

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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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But the stars that marked our starting fall away. We must go deeper into greater pain, for it is not permitted that we stay.

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Follow your path, and let the people talk.

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

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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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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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A backward glance can often lift the heart.

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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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Less shame a greater fault would palliate.

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If you follow your natural bent;you will definitely go to heaven

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Seldom indeed does human virtue rise From trunk to branch.

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Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always.

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He who shall never be divided from me kissed my mouth all trembling.

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I presumed to fix my look on the eternal light so long that I consumed my sight thereon.

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Do not be afraid; our fate Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.

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Fate's arrow, when expected, travels slow.

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No sorrow is deeper than the remembrance of happiness when in misery.

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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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