Consider that this day ne'er dawns again.
As flowerlets drooped and puckered in the night turn up to the returning sun and spread their petals wide on his new warmth and light-just so my wilted spirits rose again and such a heat of zeal surged through my veins that I was born anew.
Oh foolish desires of mortals! How weak are the reasons that lead us to not take off our flight from the ground.
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
All of nature is God's art.
We are but a day in this world, and in that day the fashion is changed a thousand times: all seek liberty, yet all deprive themselves of it.
The mouse had fallen in with evil cats.
He is not always at ease who laughs.
I wept not — so to stone I grew within.
And we came forth to contemplate the stars.
For she doth make my veins and pulses tremble.
Imagination, that dost so abstract us That we are not aware, not even when A thousand trumpets sound about our ears!
Do not desert me when I need you most. And if we can't go on together, let's retrace our steps as quickly as we can.
Love is the source of every virtue in you and of every deed which deserves punishment.
Doubting charms me not less than knowledge.
It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us.
If thou follow thy star, thou canst not fail of glorious heaven.
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.
Fate's arrow, when expected, travels slow.
Three sparks - pride, envy, and avarice - have been kindled in all hearts.
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.
A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.
No one thinks of how much blood it costs.
I affirm that gain is precisely that which comes oftener to the bad man than to the good; for illegitimate gains never come to the good at all, because they reject them. And lawful gains rarely come to the good, because, since much anxious care is needful thereto, and the anxious care of the good man is directed to weightier matters, rarely does the good man give sufficient attention thereto. Wherefore it is clear that in every way the advent of these riches is iniquitous.
The heavens call to you, and circle about you, displaying to you their eternal splendors, and your eye gazes only to earth.
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