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Be as a tower, that, firmly set, Shakes not its top for any blast that blows!
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Dante Alighieri |
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The broken branch hissed loudly, and then that wind was converted into these words: "Briefly will you be answered. When the fierce soul departs from the body from which it has uprooted itself, Minos sends it to the seventh mouth. It falls into the wood, and no place is assigned to it, but where chance hurls it, there it sprouts like a grain of spelt. It grows into a shoot, then a woody plant; the Harpies, feeding on its leaves, give it pain..
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Dante Alighieri |
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Considerate la vostra semenza: fatti non foste viver come bruti, ma per seguir virtute e canoscenza.
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Dante Alighieri |
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If i thought i was replying to someone who would every return to the world, this flame would cease it's flickering. But since no one has returned from these depths alive, if what I've heard is true, I will answer you without fear of infamy.
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Dante Alighieri |
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319c253
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Before me there were no created things, Only eternity, and I too, last eternal. Abandon all hope, ye who enter here!
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Dante Alighieri |
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From a little spark may burst a flame.
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Dante Alighieri |
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Now you must cast aside your laziness," my master said, "for he who rests on down or under covers cannot come to fame; and he who spends his life without renown leaves such a vestige of himself on earth as smoke bequeaths to air or foam to water. Therefore, get up; defeat your breathlessness with spirit that can win all battles if the body's heaviness does not deter it. A longer ladder still is to be climbed; it's not enough to have left th..
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Dante Alighieri |
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And when he had put his hand on mine with a cheerful look, wherefrom I took courage, he brought me within to the secret things. Here sighs, laments, and deep wailings were resounding through the starless air; wherefore at first I wept thereat. Strange tongues, horrible utterances, words of woe, accents of anger, voices high and faint, and sounds of hands with them, were making a tumult which whirls always in that air forever dark, like the ..
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Dante Alighieri |
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Lying in a featherbed will not bring you fame, nor staying beneath the quilt, and he who uses up his life without achieving fame leaves no more vestige of himself on earth than smoke in the air or foam upon the water.
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Dante Alighieri |
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393e87b
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That with him were, what time the Love Divine
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Dante Alighieri |
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Before me things created were none, save things
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Dante Alighieri |
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You did thirst for blood, and with blood I fill you
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inferno
hell
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Dante Alighieri |
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They had their faces twisted toward their haunches and found it necessary to walk backward, because they could not see ahead of them. ...And since he wanted so to see ahead, he looks behind and walks a backward path.
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Dante Alighieri |
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Why have you let your mind get so entwined," my master said, "that you have slowed your walk? Why should you care about what's whispered here? Come, follow me, and let these people talk: stand like a sturdy tower that does not shake its summit though the winds may blast; always the man in whom thought thrusts ahead of thought allows the goal he's set to move far off- the force of one thought saps the other's force."
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Dante Alighieri |
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And as he, who with laboring breath has escaped from the deep to the shore, turns to the perilous waters and gazes.
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Dante Alighieri |
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Until he shall have driven her back to Hell,
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Dante Alighieri |
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Madness it is to hope that human minds can ever understand the Infinite that comprehends Three Persons in One Being. Be satisfied with quia unexplained, O Human race! If you knew everything, no need for Mary to have borne a son.
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Dante Alighieri |
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And I was told about this torture, that it was the Hell of carnal sins when reasons give way to desire.
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Dante Alighieri |
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O you, who in some pretty boat, Eager to listen, have been following Behind my ship, that singing sails along Turn back to look again upon your own shores; Tempt not the deep, lest unawares, In losing me, you yourselves might be lost. The sea I sail has never yet been passed; Minerva breathes, and pilots me Apollo, And Muses nine point out to me the Bears. You other few who have neck uplifted Betimes to the bread of angels upon Which one li..
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Dante Alighieri |
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And now, I pray you, tell me who you are: do not be harder than I've been with you that in the world your name may still endure.
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Dante Alighieri |
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When any of our faculties retains a strong impression of delight or pain, the soul will wholly concentrate on that, neglecting any other power it has; and thus, when something seen or heard secures the soul in stringent grip, time moves and yet we do not notice it.
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Dante Alighieri |
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Haste denies all acts their dignity.
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haste
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Dante Alighieri |
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There are souls beneath that water. Fixed in slime they speak their piece, end it, and start again: 'Sullen were we in the air made sweet by the Sun; in the glory of his shining our hearts poured a bitter smoke. Sullen were we begun; sullen we lie forever in this ditch.' This litany they gargle in their throats as if they sand, but lacked the words and pitch.
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divine-comedy
inferno
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Dante Alighieri |
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To course across more kindly waters now my talent's little vessel lifts her sails, leaving behind herself a sea so cruel; and what I sing will be that second kingdom, in which the human soul is cleansed of sin, becoming worthy of ascent to Heaven.
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Dante Alighieri |
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All Being within this order, by the laws of its own nature is impelled to find its proper station round its Primal Cause. Thus every nature moves across the tide of the great sea of being to its own port, each with its given instinct as its guide.
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Dante Alighieri |
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These dwell among the blackest souls, loaded down deep by sins of differing types. If you sink far enough, you'll see them all.
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Dante Alighieri |
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What is it then? Why do you hesitate? Why do you relish living like a coward? Why cannot you be bold and keen to start?
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bravery
live-your-life
cowardice
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Dante Alighieri |
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In quella parte del libro de la mia memoria dinanzi a la quale poco si potrebbe leggere, si trova una rubrica la quale dice: INCIPIT VITA NOVA
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Dante Alighieri |
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how short a time the fire of love endures in woman if frequent sight and touch do not rekindle it.
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Dante Alighieri |
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My son, Here may indeed be torment, but not death.
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Dante Alighieri |
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it is his fate to enter every door. This has been willed where what is willed must be, and is not yours to question. Say no more.
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Dante Alighieri |
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The only answer that I give to you is doing it," he said. "A just request is to be met in silence, by the act."
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Dante Alighieri |
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He who best discerns the worth of time is most distressed whenever time is lost.
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Dante Alighieri |
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Soft as the early morning breeze of May, which heralds dawn, rich with the grass and flowers, spreading in waves their breathing fragrances, I felt a breeze strike soft upon my brow: I felt a wing caress it, I am sure, I sensed the sweetness of ambrosia.
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Dante Alighieri |
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My son, you've seen the temporary fire and the eternal fire; you have reached the place past which my powers cannot see. I've brought you here through intellect and art; from now on, let your pleasure be your guide; you're past the steep and past the narrow paths. Look at the sun that shines upon your brow; look at the grasses, flowers, and the shrubs born here, spontaneously, of the earth. Among them, you can rest or walk until the comin..
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freedom
virgil
weeping
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Dante Alighieri |
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Salvation must grow out of understanding, total understanding can follow only from total experience, and experience must be won by the laborious discipline of shaping one's absolute attention.
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Dante Alighieri |
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One should only be afraid of those things Which have the power of doing others harm; For the rest, fear not; because they are not fearful.
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Dante Alighieri |
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On march the banners of the King of Hell.
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Dante Alighieri |
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So many times a man's thoughts will waver, That it turns him back from honored paths, As false sight turns a beast, when he is afraid.
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Dante Alighieri |
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If you, free as you are of every weight had stayed below, then that would be as strange as living flame on earth remaining still." And then she turned her gaze up toward the heavens."
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theosis
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Dante Alighieri |
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'sw' mkn fy ljHym hw mkhSSun lhwl ldhyn ybqwn `l~ Hydhm fy zmn lm`rk l'khlqy@ lkbr~
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Dante Alighieri |
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Lady, you who are so great, so powerful, that who seeks grace without recourse to you would have his wish fly upward without wings.
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our-lady
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Dante Alighieri |
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I by not doing, not by doing, lost
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Dante Alighieri |
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Thus it was up to God, to Him alone in His own ways - by one or both, I say - to give man back his whole life and perfection. But since a deed done is more prized the more it manifests within itself the mark of the loving heart and goodness of the doer, the Everlasting Love, whose seal is plain on all the wax of the world was pleased to move in all His ways to raise you up again. There was not, nor will be, from the first day to the last n..
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