Dante Alighieri Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Christian Quotes

O you proud Christians, wretched souls and small,/ Who by the dim lights of your twisted minds/ Believe you prosper even as you fall,/ Can you not see that we are worms, each one/ Born to become the angelic butterfly/ That flies defenseless to the Judgement Throne?

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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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Go forth and preach impostures to the world, But give them truth to build on.

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Three things remain with us from paradise: stars, flowers and children.

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You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.

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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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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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You shall leave everything you love.

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Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

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All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings it forth, soon slays with parching power.

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For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.

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Fate's arrow, when expected, travels slow.

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A rapid bolt will rend the clouds apart, and every single White be seared by wounds. I tell you this. I want it all to hurt.

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...Everything that is, desires to be. As we act, we unfold our being. Enjoyment naturally follows, for a thing desired always brings delight.

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Stand firm as the tower that never shakes its top whatever wind may blow.

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The loser, when a game of dice is done, remains behind reviewing every roll sadly, and sadly wiser, and alone.

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The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and likewise pain.

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

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To get back up to the shining world from there My guide and I went into that hidden tunnel, And Following its path, we took no care To rest, but climbed: he first, then I-so far, through a round aperture I saw appear Some of the beautiful things that Heaven bears, Where we came forth, and once more saw the stars.

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Love insists the loved loves back

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