Dante Alighieri Quotes, Strong Quotes, Men Quotes

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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The mind which is created quick to love, is responsive to everything that is pleasing, soon as by pleasure it is awakened into activity. Your apprehensive faculty draws an impression from a real object, and unfolds it within you, so that it makes the mind turn thereto. And if, being turned, it inclines towards it, that inclination is love; that is nature, which through pleasure is bound anew within you.

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They had their faces twisted toward their haunches and found it necessary to walk backward, because they could not see ahead of them. ...And since he wanted so to see ahead, he looks behind and walks a backward path.

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To run over better waters the little vessel of my genius now hoists her sails, as she leaves behind her a sea so cruel.

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As flowerlets drooped and puckered in the night turn up to the returning sun and spread their petals wide on his new warmth and light-just so my wilted spirits rose again and such a heat of zeal surged through my veins that I was born anew.

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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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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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There is a gentle thought that often springs to life in me, because it speaks of you.

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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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... 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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Fate's arrow, when expected, travels slow.

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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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That with him were, what time the Love Divine

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Imagination, that dost so abstract us That we are not aware, not even when A thousand trumpets sound about our ears!

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O faithful conscience, delicately pure, how doth a little failing wound thee sore!

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Before me things created were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.

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e quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle" ("and thence we came forth to see again the stars")

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O you, who in some pretty boat, Eager to listen, have been following Behind my ship, that singing sails along Turn back to look again upon your own shores; Tempt not the deep, lest unawares, In losing me, you yourselves might be lost. The sea I sail has never yet been passed; Minerva breathes, and pilots me Apollo, And Muses nine point out to me the Bears. You other few who have neck uplifted Betimes to the bread of angels upon Which one lives and does not grow sated, Well may you launch your vessel Upon the deep sea.

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I felt for the tormented whirlwinds Damned for their carnal sins Committed when they let their passions rule their reason.

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It is no learning to understand what you do not retain.

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