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• From there we came outside and saw the stars

  Dante Alighieri

  Stars, Saws

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• Go forth and preach impostures to the world, But give them truth to build on.

  Dante Alighieri

  Giving, World, Preaching

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• I was so full of sleep at the time that I left the true way.

  Dante Alighieri

  Time, Sleep, Way

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• So may heaven's grace clear away the foam from the conscience, that the river of thy thoughts may roll limpid thenceforth.

  Dante Alighieri

  Rivers, Heaven, Grace

  "Purgatorio (Divine Comedy, Book 2)". Book by Dante Alighieri (Canto XIII), 1321.

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• Small projects need much more help than great.

  Dante Alighieri

  Needs, Helping, Projects

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• Do ye not comprehend that we are worms born to bring forth the angelic butterfly that flieth unto judgment without screen?

  Dante Alighieri

  Butterfly, Angel, Judgment

  Dante Alighieri (2016). “The Divine Comedy. Longfellow's Translation.”, p.522, Dante Alighieri

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• He who shall never be divided from me kissed my mouth all trembling.

  Dante Alighieri

  Sweet, Mouths, Trembling

  Dante Alighieri (1849). “Dante's Divine comedy: the Inferno, a literal prose tr., with the text of the original and notes, by J.A. Carlyle”, p.58

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• This sorrow weighs upon the melancholy souls of those who lived without infamy or praise.

  Dante Alighieri

  Life, Soul, Sorrow

  "Inferno", III. 3 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 440-455), 1922.

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• The loser, when a game of dice is done,
  remains behind reviewing every roll
  sadly, and sadly wiser, and alone.

  Dante Alighieri

  Wisdom, Games, Done

  Dante Alighieri (2001). “The Purgatorio”, p.83, Penguin

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• As the geometer intently seeks to square the circle, but he cannot reach, through thought on thought, the principle he needs, so I searched that strange sight.

  Dante Alighieri

  Squares, Sight, Circles

  Dante Alighieri (2016). “Paradiso”, p.285, Bantam Classics

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• The well heeded well heard.

  Dante Alighieri

  Heard, Wells

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• Give unto us this day the daily manna Without which, in this desert where we dwell, He must go backward who would most advance.

  Dante Alighieri

  Giving, Desert, Spirituality

  Dante Alighieri (1948). “Dante”

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• Curb your talent lest it speed where virtue does not guide.

  Dante Alighieri

  Doe, Talent, Speed

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• Many have justice in their hearts, but slowly it is let fly, for it comes not without council to the bow.

  Dante Alighieri

  Heart, Justice, Bows

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

  Dante Alighieri

  Life, Silence, Facts

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

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• Not one drop of blood is left inside my veins that does not throb: I recognize signs of the ancient flame.

  Dante Alighieri

  Blood, Flames, Doe

  Dante Alighieri (2000). “Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy: Purgatory. Italian text and verse translation”, p.295, Indiana University Press

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• …all things created have an order in themselves, and this begets the form that lets the universe resemble God.

  Dante Alighieri

  Order, Form, All Things

  Dante Alighieri (2007). “Paradiso”, Doubleday Books

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• The glory of Him who moves everything penetrates through the universe, and is resplendent in one part more and in another less.

  Dante Alighieri

  Moving, Glory, Penetrate

  Dante Alighieri, Frank Samperi, Harry Gilonis (1993). “Samperi-- Dante: Frank Samperi's translations of the first two cantos of Dante's Paradiso ; with an introductory essay by Harry Gilonis”

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• The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and likewise pain.

  Dante Alighieri

  Pain, Perfect, Pleasure

  Dante Alighieri (1851). “Divine Comedy. The Inferno”, p.73

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• Will cannot be quenched against its will.

  Dante Alighieri

  Willpower

  Dante Alighieri (1948). “Dante”

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• O power of fantasy that steals our minds from things outside, to leave us unaware, although a thousand trumpets may blow loud--what stirs you if the senses show you nothing? Light stirs you, formed in Heaven, by itself, or by His will Who sends it down to us.

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  Blow, Light, Heaven

  Dante Alighieri (2000). “Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy: Purgatory. Italian text and verse translation”, p.163, Indiana University Press

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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!

  Dante Alighieri

  Self, Ignorant, Spurs

  "The Divine Comedy".

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• You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.

  Dante Alighieri

  Men, Way, Taste

  Divina Commedia "Paradiso" canto 17, l. 58 (ca. 1310 - 1321) (translation by John D. Sinclair)

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• 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

  Stars, Moving, Desire

  Dante Alighieri, Charles Hubert Sisson (1980). “The divine comedy”

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• The infernal storm, eternal in its rage, sweeps and drives the spirits with its blast; it whirls them, lashing them with punishment. When they are swept back past their place of judgment then come the shrieks, laments, and anguished cries; there they blaspheme God's almighty power.

  Dante Alighieri

  Past, Punishment, Lust

  Dante Alighieri (1995). “Dante’s Inferno, The Indiana Critical Edition”, p.49, Indiana University Press

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