Dante Alighieri Quotes, Pain Quotes, Happy Times Quotes

... Nessun maggior dolore Che ricordarsi del tempo felice Nella miseria. (There is no greater pain than to remember a happy time when one is in misery.)

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There is no greater pain than to remember, in our present grief, past happiness.

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Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.

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Here we find the moat of thieves. And just as a lizard, with a quick, slick slither, Flicks across the highway from hedge to hedge, Fleeter than a flash, in the battering dog-day weather, A fiery little monster, livid, in a rage, Black as any peppercorn, came and made a dart At the guts of the others, and leaping to engage One of the pair, it pierced him at the part Through which we first draw food; then loosed its grip And fell before him, outstretched and apart.

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Behold a God more powerful than I who comes to rule over me.

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As, pricked out with less and greater lights, between the poles of the universe, the Milky Way so gleameth white as to set very sages questioning.

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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!

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Seldom indeed does human virtue rise From trunk to branch.

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I wept not — so to stone I grew within.

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Doubting charms me not less than knowledge.

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That which had pleased me once, troubled by spirit.

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Perceive ye not that we are worms, designed To form the angelic butterfly, that goes To judgment, leaving all defence behind? Why doth your mind take such exalted pose, Since ye, disabled, are as insects, mean As worm which never transformation knows?

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Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always.

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No sorrow is deeper than the remembrance of happiness when in misery.

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How come I never meet any nice girls?

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As little flowers, which the chill of night has bent and huddled, when the white sun strikes, grow straight and open fully on their stems, so did I, too, with my exhausted force.

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Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.

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Of my sowing such straw I reap. O human folk, why set the heart there where exclusion of partnership is necessary

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I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightfoward pathway had been lost. Ah me! How hard a thing is to say, what was this forest savage, rough, and stern, which in the very thought renews the fear. So bitter is it, death is little more.

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Reason flies When following the senses, on clipped wings.

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