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Dante Alighieri quotes

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“Be as a tower, that, firmly set, Shakes not its top for any blast that blows!” Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy
“The heavens are calling you, and wheel around you, Displaying to you their eternal beauties, And still your eye is looking on the ground; Whence He, who all discerns, chastises you.” Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy
“There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery, and that thy Teacher knows.” Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy
“I cannot well repeat how there I entered, So full was I of slumber at the moment In which I had abandoned the true way.” Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy
“Consider ye the seed from which ye sprang; Ye were not made to live like unto brutes, But for pursuit of virtue and of knowledge.” Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy
“Av'rice, envy, pride, Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all On fire.” Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy
“When as we read of the much-longed-for smile Being by such a noble lover kissed, This one, who ne'er from me shall be divided, Kissed me upon the mouth all palpitating.” Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy
“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 has conducted us unto one death; Caina waiteth him who quenched our life!” Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy
“Horrible my iniquities had been; But Infinite Goodness hath such ample arms, That it receives whatever turns to it.” Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy
“The weapons of divine justice are blunted by the confession and sorrow of the offender.” Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy
“Through me the way is to the city dolent; Through me the way is to eternal dole; Through me the way among the people lost.” Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy
“And all the while one spirit uttered this, The other one did weep so, that, for pity, I swooned away as if I had been dying, And fell, even as a dead body falls.” Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy
“Let us not speak of them, but look, and pass.” Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy
“Before me there were no created things, Only eterne, and I eternal last. All hope abandon, ye who enter in!” Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy
“Here all suspicion needs must be abandoned, All cowardice must needs be here extinct.” Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy
“Behold the beast, for which I have turned back; Do thou protect me from her, famous Sage, For she doth make my veins and pulses tremble.” Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy
“For such defects, and not for other guilt, Lost are we and are only so far punished, That without hope we live on in desire.” Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy

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Divine Comedy (17)