Dante Alighieri Quotes, Mind Quotes, Delight Quotes

Often a retrospect delights the mind.

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Open your mind to what I shall disclose, and hold it fast within you; he who hears, but does not hold what he has heard, learns nothing. Beatrice - Canto V 40-42

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Through me you pass into the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric moved: To rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I shall endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.

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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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I made my own house be my gallows.

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

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Abandon every hope, you who enter.

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Everywhere is here and every when is now.

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

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The splendors that belong unto the fame of earth are but a wind, that in the same direction lasts not long.

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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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The only fit reply to a fit request is silence and the fact.

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

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Still desiring, we live without hope.

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Mankind is at its best when it is most free.

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As, pricked out with less and greater lights, between the poles of the universe, the Milky Way so gleameth white as to set very sages questioning.

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No man may be so cursed by priest or pope but what the Eternal Love may still return while any thread of green lives on in hope.

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Do ye not comprehend that we are worms born to bring forth the angelic butterfly that flieth unto judgment without screen?

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If a thief helps a poor man out of the spoils of his thieving, we must not call that charity.

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