Dante Alighieri Quotes, Spring Quotes, Roots Quotes

Those ancients who in poetry presented the golden age, who sang its happy state, perhaps, in their Parnassus, dreamt this place. Here, mankind's root was innocent; and here were every fruit and never-ending spring; these streams--the nectar of which poets sing.

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We are but a day in this world, and in that day the fashion is changed a thousand times: all seek liberty, yet all deprive themselves of it.

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He who know most grieves most for wasted time.

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Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.

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In that book which is my memory, On the first page of the chapter that is the day when I first met you, Appear the words, ‘Here begins a new life’.

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Follow your own star!

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"The love of God, unutterable and perfect, flows into a pure soul the way light rushes into a transparent object. The more love that it finds, the more it gives itself: so that, as we grow clear and open, the more complete the joy of heaven is. And the more souls who resonate together, the greater the intensity of their love, and, mirror like, each soul reflects the other.

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A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.

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There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair

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Love is the source of every virtue in you and of every deed which deserves punishment.

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The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all his life drift past him like a dream, and the traces of his memory fade from time like smoke in air, or ripples on a stream.

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So that the Universe felt love, by which, as somebelieve, the world has many times been turned to chaos. And at that moment this ancient rock, here and elsewhere, fell broken into pieces.

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Behold a God more powerful than I who comes to rule over me.

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Love, that all gentle hearts so quickly know.

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And we came forth to contemplate the stars.

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He listens well who takes notes.

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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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Here pity only lives when it is dead - Virgil

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The mouse had fallen in with evil cats.

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Of my sowing such straw I reap. O human folk, why set the heart there where exclusion of partnership is necessary

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