Dante Alighieri Quotes

It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us.

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As little flowers, which the chill of night has bent and huddled, when the white sun strikes, grow straight and open fully on their stems, so did I, too, with my exhausted force.

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Compassion is not a passion; rather a noble disposition of the soul, made ready to receive love, mercy, and other charitable passions.

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Do not desert me when I need you most. And if we can't go on together, let's retrace our steps as quickly as we can.

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The glory of Him who moves everything penetrates through the universe, and is resplendent in one part more and in another less.

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No one thinks of how much blood it costs.

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What shall one do with the verse, if he knows not That?

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Through me the way into the suffering city, Through me the way to the eternal pain, Through me the way that runs among the lost. Justice urged on my high artificer; My maker was divine authority, The highest wisdom, and the primal love. Before me nothing but eternal things were made, And I endure eternally. Abandon every hope, ye who enter here.

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

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A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.

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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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O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!

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Doubting charms me not less than knowledge.

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A prayer may chance to rise From one whose heart lives in the grace of God. A prayer from any other is unheeded.

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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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The experience of this sweet life.

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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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Here let dead poetry rise once more to life.

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The heavens call to you, and circle about you, displaying to you their eternal splendors, and your eye gazes only to earth.

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So may heaven's grace clear away the foam from the conscience, that the river of thy thoughts may roll limpid thenceforth.

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