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Dante Alighieri quotes: Beauty awakens the soul to act. Beauty awakens the soul to act.
Dante Alighieri quotes: A mighty flame follows a tiny spark. A mighty flame follows a tiny spark.
Dante Alighieri quotes: Abandon every hope, you who enter. Abandon every hope, you who enter.
Dante Alighieri quotes: Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild. Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.
Dante Alighieri quotes: Love, that exempts no one beloved from loving, seized me with pleasure of this man so strongly, that, as thou seest, it doth not yet desert me. Love, that exempts no one beloved from loving, seized me with pleasure of this man so strongly, that, as thou seest, it doth not yet desert me.
Dante Alighieri quotes: So what brings you to this killing pickle? So what brings you to this killing pickle?
Dante Alighieri quotes: Three sparkspride, envy, and avaricehave been kindled in all hearts. Three sparks
pride, envy, and avarice
have been kindled in all hearts.
Dante Alighieri quotes: They yearn for what they fear for. They yearn for what they fear for.
Dante Alighieri quotes: My son,Here may indeed be torment, but not death. My son,
Here may indeed be torment, but not death.
Dante Alighieri quotes: The more souls who resonate together, the greater the intensity of their love ... and, mirror-like ... each soul reflects the other. The more souls who resonate together, the greater the intensity of their love ... and, mirror-like ... each soul reflects the other.
Dante Alighieri quotes: You did thirst for blood, and with blood I fill you You did thirst for blood, and with blood I fill you
Dante Alighieri quotes: My thoughts were full of other things When I wandered off the path. My thoughts were full of other things When I wandered off the path.
Dante Alighieri quotes: The only answer that I give to youis doing it," he said. "A just requestis to be met in silence, by the act. The only answer that I give to you
is doing it," he said. "A just request
is to be met in silence, by the act.
Dante Alighieri quotes: I hope for your sake you've got something inside that big body of yours! I hope for your sake you've got something inside that big body of yours!
Dante Alighieri quotes: I am the guardian, the shepherd of sins I am the guardian, the shepherd of sins
Dante Alighieri quotes: I make no other answer than the act, the Master said: "The only fit reply to a fit request is silence and the fact." [XXIV] I make no other answer than the act,
the Master said: "The only fit reply
to a fit request is silence and the fact." [XXIV]
Dante Alighieri quotes: But if, as morning rises, dreams are true. But if, as morning rises, dreams are true.
Dante Alighieri quotes: Only as a man surrenders himself to Devine Love may he hope for salvation, and salvation is open to all who surrender themselves Only as a man surrenders himself to Devine Love may he hope for salvation, and salvation is open to all who surrender themselves
Dante Alighieri quotes: If you're asking for a date, forget it. 'Cause I make it a point not to go out with women who shoot me in the head! If you're asking for a date, forget it. 'Cause I make it a point not to go out with women who shoot me in the head!
Dante Alighieri quotes: Love insists the loved loves back Love insists the loved loves back
Dante Alighieri quotes: up yonder in the guzzling Germans' land, up yonder in the guzzling Germans' land,
Dante Alighieri quotes: So bitter is it, death is little more; So bitter is it, death is little more;
Dante Alighieri quotes: The Commedia , it must be remembered, is a vision of the progress of man's soul toward perfection. The Commedia , it must be remembered, is a vision of the progress of man's soul toward perfection.
Dante Alighieri quotes: I presumed to fix my look on the eternal light so long that I consumed my sight thereon. I presumed to fix my look on the eternal light so long that I consumed my sight thereon.
Dante Alighieri quotes: This mountain's of such sort that climbing it is hardest at the start; but as we rise, the slope grows less unkind. This mountain's of such sort that climbing it is hardest at the start; but as we rise, the slope grows less unkind.
Dante Alighieri quotes: So may heaven's grace clear away the foam from the conscience, that the river of thy thoughts may roll limpid thenceforth. So may heaven's grace clear away the foam from the conscience, that the river of thy thoughts may roll limpid thenceforth.
Dante Alighieri quotes: How come I never meet any nice girls? How come I never meet any nice girls?
Dante Alighieri quotes: Often a retrospect delights the mind. Often a retrospect delights the mind.
Dante Alighieri quotes: A backward glance can often lift the heart. A backward glance can often lift the heart.
Dante Alighieri quotes: Love, which insists that love shall mutual be. Love, which insists that love shall mutual be.
Dante Alighieri quotes: toward the Mount.4 toward the Mount.4
Dante Alighieri quotes: This is Nimrod, because of whose vile plan the world no longer speaks a single tongue. This is Nimrod, because of whose vile plan the world no longer speaks a single tongue.
Dante Alighieri quotes: Three things remain with us from paradise: stars, flowers and children. Three things remain with us from paradise: stars, flowers and children.
Dante Alighieri quotes: And I was told about this torture, that it was the Hell of carnal sins when reasons give way to desire. And I was told about this torture, that it was the Hell of carnal sins when reasons give way to desire.
Dante Alighieri quotes: All things created have an order in themselves, and this begets the form that lets the universe resemble God. All things created have an order in themselves, and this begets the form that lets the universe resemble God.
Dante Alighieri quotes: The wish to hear such baseness is degrading. The wish to hear such baseness is degrading.
Dante Alighieri quotes: The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time. The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.
Dante Alighieri quotes: I'm beginning to think I've got rotten luck with women. I'm beginning to think I've got rotten luck with women.
Dante Alighieri quotes: The weapons of divine justice are blunted by the confession and sorrow of the offender. The weapons of divine justice are blunted by the confession and sorrow of the offender.
Dante Alighieri quotes: Doubting charms me not less than knowledge. Doubting charms me not less than knowledge.
Dante Alighieri quotes: Consider your origin. You were not formed to live like brutes but to follow virtue and knowledge. Consider your origin. You were not formed to live like brutes but to follow virtue and knowledge.
Dante Alighieri quotes: Without Hope we live in desire. Without Hope we live in desire.
Dante Alighieri quotes: i did not die, yet nothing of life remained. i did not die, yet nothing of life remained.
Dante Alighieri quotes: Still desiring, we live without hope. Still desiring, we live without hope.
Dante Alighieri quotes: No one thinks of how much blood it costs. No one thinks of how much blood it costs.
Dante Alighieri quotes: The secret of getting things done is to act! The secret of getting things done is to act!
Dante Alighieri quotes: ...but nature scants that lights in all it makes, working in much the manner of a painter who knows the true art, but those whose brush hand shakes. ...but nature scants that lights in all it makes, working in much the manner of a painter who knows the true art, but those whose brush hand shakes.
Dante Alighieri quotes: And the shining strengthened me against the frightwhose agony had wracked the lake of my heartthrough all the terrors of that piteous night. And the shining strengthened me against the fright
whose agony had wracked the lake of my heart
through all the terrors of that piteous night.
Dante Alighieri quotes: Through me you go into a city of weeping; through me you go into eternal pain; through me you go amongst the lost people Through me you go into a city of weeping; through me you go into eternal pain; through me you go amongst the lost people
Dante Alighieri quotes: On march the banners of the King of Hell. On march the banners of the King of Hell.
Dante Alighieri quotes: I cannot well repeat how there I entered, I cannot well repeat how there I entered,
Dante Alighieri quotes: For she doth make my veins and pulses tremble. For she doth make my veins and pulses tremble.
Dante Alighieri quotes: He who best discerns the worth of time is most distressed whenever time is lost. He who best discerns the worth of time is most distressed whenever time is lost.
Dante Alighieri quotes: In the middle of the journey of our life I found myself within a dark woods where the straight way was lost. In the middle of the journey of our life I found myself within a dark woods where the straight way was lost.
Dante Alighieri quotes: Ah! Justice of our God! Who else could stowSuch travails new and pains as met my glance! Ah! Justice of our God! Who else could stow
Such travails new and pains as met my glance!
Dante Alighieri quotes: Nature is the art of God. Nature is the art of God.
Dante Alighieri quotes: Love with delight discourses in my mindUpon my lady's admirable gifts ... Beyond the range of human intellect. Love with delight discourses in my mindUpon my lady's admirable gifts ... Beyond the range of human intellect.
Dante Alighieri quotes: I wept not, so to stone within I grew. I wept not, so to stone within I grew.
Dante Alighieri quotes: When you are nearer, you will understand how much your eyesight is deceived by distance. Therefore, push yourself a little harder. When you are nearer, you will understand how much your eyesight is deceived by distance. Therefore, push yourself a little harder.
Dante Alighieri quotes: I have set foot in that region of life where it is not possible to go with any more intention of returning I have set foot in that region of life where it is not possible to go with any more intention of returning
Dante Alighieri quotes: A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence. A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.
Dante Alighieri quotes: There is no greater pain than to remember, in our present grief, past happiness. There is no greater pain than to remember, in our present grief, past happiness.
Dante Alighieri quotes: Oh foolish desires of mortals! How weak are the reasons that lead us to not take off our flight from the ground. Oh foolish desires of mortals! How weak are the reasons that lead us to not take off our flight from the ground.
Dante Alighieri quotes: Christians, be steadier in what you do, not blown like feathers at the wind's discretion, nor think that every water cleanses you... Christians, be steadier in what you do, not blown like feathers at the wind's discretion, nor think that every water cleanses you...
Dante Alighieri quotes: Noble demands, by right, deserve the consequence of silent deeds. Noble demands, by right, deserve the consequence of silent deeds.
Dante Alighieri quotes: Its very memory gives a shape to fear. Death could scarce be more bitter than that place! Its very memory gives a shape to fear. Death could scarce be more bitter than that place!
Dante Alighieri quotes: Neither Creator nor creature ever, Son, " he began, "was destitute of loveNatural or spiritual; and thou knowest it. Neither Creator nor creature ever,
Son, " he began, "was destitute of love
Natural or spiritual; and thou knowest it.
Dante Alighieri quotes: But already my desire and my will were being turned like a wheel, all at one speed, by the Love which moves the sun and the other stars But already my desire and my will were being turned like a wheel, all at one speed, by the Love which moves the sun and the other stars
Dante Alighieri quotes: I was so full of sleep at the time that I left the true way. I was so full of sleep at the time that I left the true way.
Dante Alighieri quotes: Mankind, why do ye set your hearts on things That, of necessity, may not be shared? Mankind, why do ye set your hearts on things That, of necessity, may not be shared?
Dante Alighieri quotes: And what will bow your shoulders downwill be the vicious and worthless company with whom you will fall into this abyss. And what will bow your shoulders down
will be the vicious and worthless company
with whom you will fall into this abyss.
Dante Alighieri quotes: It is his fate to enter every door. This has been willed where what is willed must be, and is not yours to question. Say no more. It is his fate to enter every door. This has been willed where what is willed must be, and is not yours to question. Say no more.
Dante Alighieri quotes: Lady, you who are so great, so powerful,that who seeks grace without recourse to youwould have his wish fly upward without wings. Lady, you who are so great, so powerful,
that who seeks grace without recourse to you
would have his wish fly upward without wings.
Dante Alighieri quotes: As at those words did I myself become;And all my love was so absorbed in Him,That in oblivion Beatrice was eclipsed. As at those words did I myself become;
And all my love was so absorbed in Him,
That in oblivion Beatrice was eclipsed.
Dante Alighieri quotes: True love is never lost, not even by a bishop's or a priest's curse, that we cannot regain it, so long as hope has still its bit of green. True love is never lost, not even by a bishop's or a priest's curse, that we cannot regain it, so long as hope has still its bit of green.
Dante Alighieri quotes: If thou follow thy star, thou canst not fail of glorious heaven. If thou follow thy star, thou canst not fail of glorious heaven.
Dante Alighieri quotes: I love to doubt as well as know. I love to doubt as well as know.
Dante Alighieri quotes: No sadness is greater than in misery to rehearse memories of joy. No sadness is greater than in misery to rehearse memories of joy.
Dante Alighieri quotes: There is a place in Hell called the Malebolge ... There is a place in Hell called the Malebolge ...
Dante Alighieri quotes: O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault! O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!
Dante Alighieri quotes: Go forth and preach impostures to the world, But give them truth to build on. Go forth and preach impostures to the world, But give them truth to build on.
Dante Alighieri quotes: If you weep not now, when will you ever weep?E se non piangi, de che pianger suoli?--Inferno, c. 33 l. 42 If you weep not now, when will you ever weep?

E se non piangi, de che pianger suoli?

--Inferno, c. 33 l. 42
Dante Alighieri quotes: Love is the source of every virtue in you and of every deed which deserves punishment. Love is the source of every virtue in you and of every deed which deserves punishment.
Dante Alighieri quotes: I by not doing, not by doing, lost I by not doing, not by doing, lost
Dante Alighieri quotes: Behold a God more powerful than I who comes to rule over me. Behold a God more powerful than I who comes to rule over me.
Dante Alighieri quotes: Lost are we, and are only so far punished,That without hope we live on in desire. Lost are we, and are only so far punished,
That without hope we live on in desire.
Dante Alighieri quotes: Come on, shake off the covers of this sloth, for sitting softly cushioned, or tucked in bed, is no way to win fame. Come on, shake off the covers of this sloth, for sitting softly cushioned, or tucked in bed, is no way to win fame.
Dante Alighieri quotes: If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought. If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.
Dante Alighieri quotes: Remember tonight ... for it is the beginning of always Remember tonight ... for it is the beginning of always
Dante Alighieri quotes: From there we came outside and saw the stars From there we came outside and saw the stars
Dante Alighieri quotes: Infinite goodness has such wide arms. Infinite goodness has such wide arms.
Dante Alighieri quotes: Behave like men, and not like witless sheep... Behave like men, and not like witless sheep...
Dante Alighieri quotes: He tells his reader that writings should be expounded in four senses. The first He tells his reader that writings should be expounded in four senses. The first
Dante Alighieri quotes: And said the Guide, 'One am I who descendsDown with this living man from cliff to cliff,And I intend to show Hell unto him. And said the Guide, 'One am I who descends
Down with this living man from cliff to cliff,
And I intend to show Hell unto him.
Dante Alighieri quotes: Less shame a greater fault would palliate. Less shame a greater fault would palliate.
Dante Alighieri quotes: But the stars that marked our starting fall away.We must go deeper into greater pain,for it is not permitted that we stay. But the stars that marked our starting fall away.
We must go deeper into greater pain,
for it is not permitted that we stay.
Dante Alighieri quotes: All hope abandon, ye who enter here. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.
Dante Alighieri quotes: Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction. Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.
Dante Alighieri quotes: 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. 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.
Dante Alighieri quotes: Oh blind, oh ignorant, self-seeking cupidity whcih spurs as so in the short mortal life and steeps as through all eternity. Oh blind, oh ignorant, self-seeking cupidity whcih spurs as so in the short mortal life and steeps as through all eternity.

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