Dante Alighieri Quotes, Light Quotes, Sight Quotes

I presumed to fix my look on the eternal light so long that I consumed my sight thereon.

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

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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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Mankind is at its best when it is most free. This will be clear if we grasp the principle of liberty. We must recall that the basic principle is freedom of choice, which saying many have on their lips but few in their minds.

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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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The experience of this sweet life.

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Justice does not descend from its own pinnacle.

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At the midpoint on the journey of life, I found myself in a dark forest, for the clear path was lost.

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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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Oh blind! Oh ignorant, self-seeking cupidity which spurs us so in the short mortal life and steeps us so through all eternity!

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

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O mortal men, be wary of how ye judge.

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O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?

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A backward glance can often lift the heart.

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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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Your fame is as the grass, whose hue comes and goes, and His might withers it by whose power it sprang from the lap of the earth.

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Infinite goodness has such wide arms.

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Fame is not won on downy plumes nor under canopies; the man who consumes his days without obtaining it leaves such mark of himself on earth as smoke in air or foam on water.

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Midway upon the journey of our life

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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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