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• At this high moment, ability failed my capacity to describe.

  Dante Alighieri

  Moments, Capacity, Ability

  Dante Alighieri (2015). “Divine Comedy (Volume I): Paradise {Illustrated}”, p.5, eKitap Projesi

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• Doubting pleases me no less than knowing

  Dante Alighieri

  Please Me, Knowing, Doubt

  Dante Alighieri (2016). “The Divine Comedy. Longfellow's Translation.”, p.126, Dante Alighieri

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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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• 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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• No man may be so cursed by priest or pope but what the Eternal Love may still return while any thread of green lives on in hope.

  Dante Alighieri

  Love, Men, May

  Dante Alighieri (2001). “The Purgatorio”, p.54, Penguin

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The well heeded well heard.

  Dante Alighieri

  Heard, Wells

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

  Dante Alighieri

  Doe, Talent, Speed

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• It was the hour of morning, when the sun mounts with those stars that shone with it when God's own love first set in motion those fair things

  Dante Alighieri

  Morning, Stars, Firsts

  Dante Alighieri, Robert Hollander, Jean Hollander (2000). “Inferno”, Doubleday Books

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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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• 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.

  Dante Alighieri

  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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• Will cannot be quenched against its will.

  Dante Alighieri

  Willpower

  Dante Alighieri (1948). “Dante”

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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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• 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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