Dante Alighieri Quotes, Fate Quotes, Sorrow Quotes

I, answering in the end, began: 'Alas, how many yearning thoughts, what great desire, have lead them through such sorrow to their fate?

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Thy soul is by vile fear assailed, which oft so overcasts a man, that he recoils from noblest resolution, like a beast at some false semblance in the twilight gloom.

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The greatest gift that God in His bounty made in creation, and the most conformable to His goodness, and that which He prizes the most, was the freedom of will, with which the creatures with intelligence, they all and they alone, were and are endowed.

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Consider the sea's listless chime: Time's self it is, made audible.

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Sta come torre ferma, che non crolla Giammai la cima per soffiar de' venti. Be steadfast as a tower that doth not bend its stately summit to the tempest's shock.

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Because there is no man who can be true and just judge of himself, so much will self-love deceive him.

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There are souls beneath that water. Fixed in slimethey speak their piece, end it, and start again:'Sullen were we in the air made sweet by the Sun;in the glory of his shining our hearts poureda bitter smoke. Sullen were we begun;sullen we lie forever in this ditch.'This litany they gargle in their throatsas if they sand, but lacked the words and pitch.

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I saw a point that shone with light so keen, the eye that sees it cannot bear its blazing; the star that is for us the smallest one would seem a moon if placed beside this point.

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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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Abandon every hope, you who enter.

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At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain.

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Do not be afraid; our fate Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.

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Thou shall know by experience how salt the savor is of others' bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's stairs.

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Love and the gentle heart are but the same thing.

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

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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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There is no greater pain than to remember, in our present grief, past happiness.

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If i thought i was replying to someone who would every return to the world, this flame would cease it's flickering. But since no one has returned from these depths alive, if what I've heard is true, I will answer you without fear of infamy.

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The well heeded well heard.

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

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