Dante Alighieri Quotes, Wind Quotes, Long Quotes

The splendors that belong unto the fame of earth are but a wind, that in the same direction lasts not long.

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There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words of pain, tones of anger, voices loud and hoarse, and with these the sound of hands, made a tumult which is whirling through that air forever dark, and sand eddies in a whirlwind.

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L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle (The love that moves the sun and the other stars)

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I did not die, and yet I lost life’s breath

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From there we came outside and saw the stars

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From a little spark may burst a flame.

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Come, follow me, and leave the world to its babblings.

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Your fame is as the grass, whose hue comes and goes, and His might withers it by whose power it sprang from the lap of the earth.

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

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This sorrow weighs upon the melancholy souls of those who lived without infamy or praise.

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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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The infernal storm, eternal in its rage, sweeps and drives the spirits with its blast; it whirls them, lashing them with punishment. When they are swept back past their place of judgment then come the shrieks, laments, and anguished cries; there they blaspheme God's almighty power.

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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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Stand firm as the tower that never shakes its top whatever wind may blow.

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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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The loser, when a game of dice is done, remains behind reviewing every roll sadly, and sadly wiser, and alone.

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Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.

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I wept not — so to stone I grew within.

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There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair

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He is not always at ease who laughs.

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