Dante Alighieri Quotes - Page 4

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• Often a retrospect delights the mind.

  Dante Alighieri

  Mind, Delight, Retrospect

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• Hope not ever to see heaven. I come to lead you to the other shore; into the eternal darkness; into fire and ice.

  Dante Alighieri

  Fire, Ice, Heaven

  "The Divine Comedy".

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• My course is set for an uncharted sea.

  Dante Alighieri

  Sea, Uncharted, Courses

  Dante Alighieri (2001). “The Paradiso”, p.8, Penguin

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• Compassion is not a passion; rather a noble disposition of the soul, made ready to receive love, mercy, and other charitable passions.

  Dante Alighieri

  Passion, Soul, Noble

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• I found myself within a forest dark.

  Dante Alighieri

  Dark, Forests, Divine Comedy

  Dante Alighieri (2016). “The Divine Comedy. Longfellow's Translation.”, Dante Alighieri

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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.

  Dante Alighieri

  Twilight, Men, Soul

  Dante Alighieri (1998). “Inferno”, p.8, Wordsworth Editions

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• 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.

  Dante Alighieri

  Fashion, Liberty, World

  Dante Alighieri (1867). “The divine comedy, tr. by H.W. Longfellow”, p.429

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• Oh foolish desires of mortals! How weak are the reasons that lead us to not take off our flight from the ground.

  Dante Alighieri

  Desire, Flight, Reason

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• If thou follow thy star, thou canst not fail of glorious heaven.

  Dante Alighieri

  Stars, Destiny, Heaven

  Divina Commedia "Inferno" canto 15, l. 55 (ca. 1310 - 1321) (translation by John D. Sinclair)

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• I wept not — so to stone I grew within.

  Dante Alighieri

  Stones, Grew, Weeping

  "Dante's Divine comedy. The First Part Hell", Translated in the Metre of the Original, with notes, by Thomas Brooksbank M.A. Camb,

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• 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.

  Dante Alighieri

  Together, Steps, Needs

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• And we came forth to contemplate the stars.

  Dante Alighieri

  Stars, Contemplating

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• The heavens call to you, and circle about you, displaying to you their eternal splendors, and your eye gazes only to earth.

  Dante Alighieri

  Eye, Circles, Heaven

  Dante Alighieri (1991). “Purgatorio”, p.153, Princeton University Press

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

  Dante Alighieri

  Blow, Wind, Towers

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• Astrology, the noblest of sciences.

  Dante Alighieri

  Astrology

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• A man's renown is like the hue of grass, Which comes and goes.

  Dante Alighieri

  Men, Hue, Fame

  Dante Alighieri (1948). “Dante”

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• 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.

  Dante Alighieri

  Night, Light, Rose

  Dante Alighieri (2001). “The Inferno”, p.34, Penguin

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• If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.

  Dante Alighieri

  World, Causes, Divine Comedy

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• It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us.

  Dante Alighieri

  Pleasure

  "Divine Comedy". Poem by Dante Alighieri. Inferno, Song XII, 87, 1321.

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• A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.

  Dante Alighieri

  Flames, Tiny Things, Sparks

  Dante Alighieri, Julie Eidesheim (1944). “The Divine comedy of Dante Alighieri”

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• All of nature is God's art.

  Dante Alighieri

  Art

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• He who awaits the call, but sees the need, Already sets his spirit to refuse it.

  Dante Alighieri

  Needs, Spirit, Refusal

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• Fate's arrow, when expected, travels slow.

  Dante Alighieri

  Fate, Arrows, Expected

  Dante Alighieri (1984). “Dante's Paradise”

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• A backward glance can often lift the heart.

  Dante Alighieri

  Heart, Glances, Lifts

  Dante Alighieri (2000). “Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy: Purgatory. Italian text and verse translation”, p.33, Indiana University Press

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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.

  Dante Alighieri

  Dream, Memories, Lying

  Dante Alighieri, John Ciardi (1954). “The inferno”, Signet

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