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That infinite and indescribable good which is there above races as swiftly to love as a ray of light to a bright body. It gives of itself according to the ardor it finds, so that as charity spreads farther the eternal good increases upon it, and the more souls there are who love, up there, the more there are to love well, and the more love they reflect to each other, as in a mirror.
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heaven
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Ahi serva Italia, di dolore ostello, / nave senza nocchiere in gran tempesta, / non donna di province, ma bordello.
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You've built yourselves a god from silver and gold. How does that differ from idol worship, except Those people worship one god and you a hundred?
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those cries rose from among the twisted roots through which the spirits of the damned were slinking to hide from us. Therefore my Master said: 'If you break off a twig, what you will learn will drive what you are thinking from your head.' Puzzled, I raised my hand a bit and slowly broke off a branchlet from an enormous thorn: and the great trunk of it cried: 'Why do you break me?' And after blood had darkened all the bowl of the wound, it c..
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Life is a " vale of tears" a period of trial and suffering, an unpleasant but necessary preparation for the afterlife where alone man could expect to enjoy happiness - Archibald T. MacAllister (The Inferno; Dante Alighieri translated by John Ciardi)"
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I say that when she appeared, in whatever place, by the hope embodied in that marvelous greeting, for me no enemy remained, in fact I shone with a flame of charity that made me grant pardon to whoever had offended me: and if anyone had then asked me anything my reply would only have been: 'Love', with an aspect full of humility.
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Not foliage green, but of a fusk colour, Not branches smooth, but gnarled and intertangled not apple-tress were there, but thorns with poison.
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The wish to hear such baseness is degrading.
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So bitter is it, death is little more;
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your soul has been assailed by cowardice, which often weighs so heavily on a man-- distracting him from honorable trials-- as phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall.
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encouragement-quotes
inferno
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Noi siam venuti al loco ov'i' t'ho detto che tu vedrai le genti dolorose c'hanno perduto il ben de l'intelletto. We to the place have come, where I have told thee Thou shalt behold the people dolorous Who have foregone the good of intellect.
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The Commedia , it must be remembered, is a vision of the progress of man's soul toward perfection.
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As in the autumn-time the leaves fall off, First one and then another, till the branch Surrenders all its spoils to the earth; In similar fashion did these evil seeds of Adam throw Themselves from the group, one by one, into the boat At Charon's signal, as a bird is called to its lure.
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Here all suspicion must be abandoned, All cowardice must be extinct.
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Being by such a noble lover kissed, This one, who ne'er from me shall be divided, Kissed me upon the mouth all palpitating.
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Though every city shall he hunt her down, Until he shall driven her back to Hell, There from whence envy first did let her loose.
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I cannot well repeat how there I entered,
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And now I fell as bodies fall,for dead.
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inferno
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I make no other answer than the act, the Master said: "The only fit reply to a fit request is silence and the fact." [XXIV]"
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Rejoice, Florence, seeing you are so great that over sea and land you flap your wings, and your name is widely known in Hell!
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There is no greater sorrow than to recall our time of joy in wretchedness.
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sorrow
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While the everlasting pleasure, that did full On Beatrice shine, with second view From her fair countenance my gladden'd soul Contented; vanquishing me with a beam Of her soft smile, she spake: "Turn thee, and list. These eyes are not thy only Paradise."
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Wisdom is earned, not given
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And so we made our way across that heap of stones, which often moved beneath my feet because my weight was somewhat strange for them.
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substantive-humor
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Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita
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That precious fruit which all men eagerly go searching for on many different boughs will give,today, peace to your hungry soul.
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Dante Alighieri |
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Ah me! how hard a thing it is to say
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High justice would in no way be debased if ardent love should cancel instantly the debts these penitents must satisfy.
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love
mercy
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God's greatest gift to man In all the bounty He was moved to make Throughout creation-the one gift the most Close to his goodness and the one He calls Most precious-is free will.
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Oh human creatures, born to soar aloft, Why fall ye thus before a little wind?
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humanity
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