Dante Alighieri Quotes, Fall Quotes, Light Quotes

As fall the light autumnal leaves, one still the other following, till the bough strews all its honors on the earth below.

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Without hope we live in desire.

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A backward glance can often lift the heart.

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You shall leave everything you love.

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This sorrow weighs upon the melancholy souls of those who lived without infamy or praise.

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He is not always at ease who laughs.

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From a little spark may burst a flame.

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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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Beauty awakens the soul to act.

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It was the hour of morning, when the sun mounts with those stars that shone with it when God's own love first set in motion those fair things

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Still desiring, we live without hope.

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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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Consider the sea's listless chime: Time's self it is, made audible.

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But already my desire and my will were being turned like a wheel, all at one speed, by the Love which moves the sun and the other stars

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In His will, our peace.

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Doubting pleases me no less than knowing

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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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He listens well who takes notes.

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Perceive ye not that we are worms, designed To form the angelic butterfly, that goes To judgment, leaving all defence behind? Why doth your mind take such exalted pose, Since ye, disabled, are as insects, mean As worm which never transformation knows?

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Like the lark that soars in the air, first singing, then silent, content with the last sweetness that satiates it, such seemed to me that image, the imprint of the Eternal Pleasure.

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